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Occupation
  
writer

Role
  
Poet

Name
  
Eneriko Seruma

Nationality
  
Ugandan


Eneriko Seruma Eneriko Seruma

Genre
  
Poetry, Novels, shortstories

Notable works
  
The experience, The heartseller

Education
  
St. Mary's College Kisubi

Eneriko Seruma is the pen name for Ugandan poet, novelist and short story writer, Henry S. Kimbugwe. He is the author of the novel, "The experience" and a colleection of short stories titled, "The heart seller". He also wrote poems and short stories for leading East african journals and magazines in the 1960s and 1970s, including "Ghala", "Busara", "Zuka" and "Transition".

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Early life and education

Seruma wa born in Uganda and educated in the United states. He attended St. Mary's College Kisubi for his secondary education. He attended, and was graduated from, Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont. He was the public relations officer for the East African Publishing House and was an award winner of the East Africa Literature Bureau's and Deutsche Welle's creative writing competitions.

Novels

  • The experience. East African Pub. House. 1970. 
  • Short story collections

  • The heart seller: Short stories (Modern African library, 21). East African Pub. House. 1971. 
  • Anthologies

  • The town, in Ayebia Clarke, ed. (2004). Half a day and other stories: an anthology of short stories from north eastern and eastern Africa. Macmillan Kenya. ISBN 9789966340856. 
  • References

    Eneriko Seruma Wikipedia