Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), was the first to be published in English by a Black woman from Zimbabwe and was named by the BBC in 2018 as one of the top 100 books that have shaped the world.

She has received significant literary honors, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the PEN Pinter Prize. In 2020, her novel This Mournable Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

In 2022, Dangarembga was convicted in a Zimbabwe court of inciting public violence, by displaying a placard asking for reform on a public road; however, her conviction was later overturned.

Dangarembga spent part of her childhood in England, where she began her education, but concluded her A-levels in a missionary school back home in Mutare. She initially studied medicine at Cambridge University but returned home, feeling homesick, as Zimbabwe's black-majority rule began in 1980. She later took up psychology at the University of Zimbabwe, where she was a member of the drama group.

She also worked as a copywriter at a marketing agency, giving her early writing experience and an avenue for expression. She wrote numerous plays, such as The Lost of the Soil, and joined the theatre group Zambuko, participating in productions like Katshaa and Mavambo.