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Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga is an award-winning Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. She completed her residency at The Bellagio Center in 2016. Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions (1988), won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Africa Section), and her most recent novel, This Mournable Body (2021), partly written at the Center, was nominated for the Booker Prize.
Saumya Roy
Saumya Roy is an author, journalist, and micro-finance entrepreneur based in Mumbai. Saumya completed her residency at The Bellagio Center in 2017. After spending nearly a decade investigating an undersung community living in a landfill in Mumbai, she used her residency to translate that fascination into a book.
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht is an urban policy expert, and the former president and CEO of Living Cities. He first attended a Bellagio convening “Blueprint for National Prosperity” in 2007, then completed a residency at The Bellagio Center in 2016 and recently established his own LLC—Reclaiming The Dream—to advance his ideas for improving educational opportunities, strengthening civic engagement, and providing a ladder to economic security across the U.S.
Mariana Rondón
Mariana Rondón is a director, screenwriter, producer, and visual artist from Barquisimeto, Venezuela. She completed her residency at The Bellagio Center in 2017. Her movies include the dramas Bad Hair (2013), Postcards from Leningrad (2007), and her upcoming project Zafari, which was the focus of her residency.
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Welcome to the first edition of the Bellagio Bulletin, where you can find stories about what happened because of Bellagio, experience a bit of the magic, and understand the impact that the Center’s distinguished alumni are having in the world. In this first edition, you’ll find the origin story of a collaboration between a New […]
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