Occupation writer Name Doreen Baingana Books Tropical Fish Notable works Tropical Fish Movies Girl Rising | Genre Fiction Nationality Ugandan Role Short story writer | |
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Doreen Baingana: The role of offensive language in novels
Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan short story writer and editor. Her book Tropical Fish won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa Region, and the AWP Award for Short Fiction (US). She won a Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize and has twice been a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. She was managing Editor at Story Moja, and was one of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize judges. She gave a talk on TED 2013 about "The role of offensive language in novels"
Contents
- Doreen Baingana The role of offensive language in novels
- Channels Bookclub Interviews Ugandan Writer Doreen Baingana
- Early life and education
- Writing
- Short story anthology
- Childrens books
- Shortstories
- Awards and recognition
- References
Channels Bookclub Interviews Ugandan Writer, Doreen Baingana
Early life and education
Ms. Baingana obtained a law degree from Makerere University, Uganda, and an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, USA. While at Makerere University Baingana was an active member of FEMRITE - Uganda Women Writers Association, which she has referred to as "a literary home of sorts". Baingana lived in the USA for over a decade before returning to Uganda.
Writing
Baingana's work has appeared in AGNI, Glimmer Train, African American Review, Callaloo, The Guardian, Kwani? and on BBC Commonwealth stories. Her book Tropical Fish has been published in the US, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and most recently came out in Swedish translation. She has taught creative writing at various institutions including the University of Maryland, the Writer's Center in Maryland, the SLS/Kwani? Literary Festival in Kenya, and with Femrite in Uganda.
Baingana has won the Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize and is a two-time finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. She has received fellowships and scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Key West Writers Seminar, and an Artist's Grant from the District of Columbia. Baingana's fiction has been published in journals such as Glimmer Train, Chelsea, African American Review, Callaloo and The Sun; her poetry in the anthology Beyond the Frontier; and her essays and articles in The Guardian (UK), and in New Vision and The Monitor newspapers in Uganda. She was on the faculty of the Summer Literary Festival in Kenya in 2005 and 2006.