Doreen Baingana

Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan short story writer. Her book, Tropical Fish won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa, and an AWP Short Fiction Award. ^[1]

She has graduated from Makerere University with a JD, and from the University of Maryland with an MFA.^[2] While at Makerere University Baingana was an active member of FEMRITE - Uganda Women Writers Association,^[3] which she has referred to as "a literary home of sorts".^[4]

Her work has appeared in AGNI,^[5] Glimmer Train, African American Review, Callaloo, The Guardian, and Kwani.^[6]

She lives in Rockville, Maryland.^[7]

Works

• Tropical fish: stories out of Entebbe. University of Massachusetts Press. 2005. ISBN 9781558494770. http://books.google.com/books?id=-BZQx9KKev0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Doreen+Baingana&hl=en&ei=ht_nTerKDsX30gHa1rXvCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 

Anthologies

• "Hunger". Seventh street alchemy: a selection of works from the Caine Prize for African writing. Jacana Media. 2005. ISBN 9781770091450. http://books.google.com/books?id=cWeBMHFQx1sC&pg=PA53&dq=Doreen+Baingana&hl=en&ei=ht_nTerKDsX30gHa1rXvCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Rob Spillman, ed (2009). "Christianity Killed the Cat". Gods and soldiers: the Penguin anthology of contemporary African writing. Penguin. ISBN 9780143114734. http://books.google.com/books?id=hb-W47yONLUC&pg=PT174&dq=Doreen+Baingana&hl=en&ei=ht_nTerKDsX30gHa1rXvCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Doreen%20Baingana&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.cassavarepublic.biz/our-authors-mainmenu-100/doreen-baingana-mainmenu-95
2. ^ http://www.umass.edu/umpress/fall_04/baingana.html
3. ^ "FEMRITE Achievements and Milestones." FEMRITE - Uganda Women Writers' Association. Retrieved August 22, 2011 from http://www.femriteug.org/?view=7
4. ^ Ava-Matthew, Lois. "FEMRITE and Ugandan Women Writers." Belletrista. 2009. Retrieved August 26, 2011 from http://www.belletrista.com/2009/issue2/features_2.php
5. ^ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/D/Doreen-Baingana.html
6. ^ http://www.writer.org/doreenbaingana
7. ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/71531/doreen-baingana

External links

• "A View of Contemporary Uganda in 'Tropical Fish'", NPR, Jennifer Ludden, February 6, 2005
• "Writer’s Shock: Author Doreen Baingana Prepares to Pen a Travelogue From Memory", Washington City Paper, Christina Lee, November 18, 2010

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