The environment and reading culture in Zimbabwe is not firm enough to support professional fiction writers with the declining standard of education in the country dealing a heavy blow on both writers and readers, Booker Prize-shortlisted writer, Tsitsi Dangarembga has bemoaned.
The award-winning writer was speaking to 263Chat, reflecting on her recent nomination and commenting on the state of fiction writing in Zimbabwe. Dangarembga was announced Monday as one of the six finalists of The Booker Prize, which recognizes the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
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