Doreen Baingana

Doreen Baingana (yazaalibwa 1966) muwandiisi wa bitabo mu Uganda. Ekitabo kye eky’emboozi ennyimpi, Tropical Fish , kyawangula engule ya Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction mu 2003 n’ekirabo kya Commonwealth Writers’ mu kitabo ekyasooka ekisinga obulungi, Africa Region mu 2006. Emboozi eziri mu yo zaali za fayinolo z’ekirabo kya Caine mu 2004 ne 2005. Yali ku fayinolo y'ekirabo ekya Caine ez'omulundi ogw’okusatu mu 2021 era afunye awaadi endala nnyingi nga bweziragidwa wano wansi.

Doreen Baigana

Gyenvudde n'Okusoma

Doreen Baingana yakulira Entebbe, yasomera mu Gayaza High School era n’afuna diguli mu mateeka okuva mu yunivasite y’e Makerere ne MFA mu kuwandiika ebiyiiye okuva mu yunivasite y’e Maryland, College Park . </link> Amangu ddala nga wayiseewo ekiseera, yalondebwa okuba omuwandiisi-omutuuze mu Jiménez-Porter Writers House . Yatandika diguli eyookubiri mu kuwandiika obuyiiya mu yunivasite y’e Queensland mu 2023.

Emirimu

Baingana yawangula ekirabo kya Grace Paley Prize mu firimu ennyimpi mu 2003 olw'ekitabo kye Tropical Fish . Kyafulumizibwa ekitongole kya University of Massachusetts Press ne Broadway Books mu Amerika, Oshun Books e South Afrika, ne Cassava Republic Press mu Nigeria. Kivuunuddwa mu lulimi Oluswedi n'Olusipeyini . Kigenda kufuluma mu Lufalansa. Emboozi ezikwatagana, ezinoonyereza ku bulamu bwa bannyinaffe basatu abaakulira mu Entebbe oluvannyuma lw'okugwa kwa Idi Amin, Publishers Weekly zayogebwako nga "emboozi ezirimu ebikwata ku nsonga nnyingi" ezirimu " emboozi enyuvu ez'ogerwa ku buwangwa."

Baingana afulumizza ebitabo by’abaana bibiri wamu n’emboozi ennyimpi, ennyiriri, n’emitwe mu mawulire ne magazini nnyingi omuli; The Georgia Review, The Evergreen Review, The African American Review, Chelsea, Glimmer Train, Callaloo, Agni, The Caravan: A Journal of Politics and Culture, Transition, The Guardian, Chimurenga, Kwani?, Farafina ne Ibua . Emboozi ze zibadde zisomwa butereevu ku Voice of America ne BBC era zibadde ziteekebwa mu bitabo bingi omuli Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing ; The Granta Anthology of African Fiction, Cultural Transformations (OneWorld), New Daughters of Africa (akasunsulwa Margaret Busby, 2019). ne Joyful, Joyful: Stories Celebrating Black Voices

Baingana yali kontulakita ne Voice of America okumala emyaka kkumi era yasomesa mu Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD nga tannadda mu Uganda. Yaliko akulira eby'emirimu mu Storymoja Africa, efulumya ebitabo mu Kenya, era nga ye ssentebe w’ekibiina kya FEMRITE, ekibiina ekigatta abawandiisi abakyala ekya Uganda Women Writers Association. Ye omu ku batandisi era addukanya ekitongole kya Mawazo Africa Writing Institute era akulembera eamaduuka g'ebiwandiike ebiyiiye okwetoloola Afrika.

Emboozi y’omutwe gw’ekitabo kya Baingana ekyawangula engule ekya Tropical Fish kyagaddwa ku siteegi ne kiyimbibwa mu kivvulu kya Kampala International Theatre Festival (KITF 2016) ne mubifo ebirala bina mu Kampala, wamu n’ekivvulu kya AfriCologne Theatre Festival e Cologne ekya Germany, mu mwaka gwa 2017. Emboozi endala ennyimpi eza Baingana, "Hills of Salt and Sugar", kyayagalwa era nekiteekebwa ku siteegi mu KITF 2018.

Baingana abadde mulamuzi ku birabo omuli; Ekirabo ky'emboozi ennyimpi ekya Afritondo, 9mobile Prize for Literature, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Golden Baobab Prize ne the Hurston-Wright Prize mu biwandiiko ebisooka.

Awaadi

• 2002: D.C.Commission of the Arts and Humanities Artist's Grant
• 2003: Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction
• 2004, 2005 & 2021: Caine Prize,finalist
• 2004: Bread Loaf Writers Conference Scholar
• 2004: Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize
• 2005: Bread Loaf Writers Conference Michael and Marylee Fairbanks International Fellow
• 2006: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Writers'_Prize" rel="mw:ExtLink" title="Commonwealth Writers' Prize" class="mw-redirect cx-link" data-linkid="119">Common</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Writers'_Prize" rel="mw:ExtLink" title="Commonwealth Writers' Prize" class="mw-redirect cx-link" data-linkid="119">wealth Writers' Prize</a>, Africa Region

• 2006: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction, finalist
• 2011: Norman Mailer Center Fellowship mu bitontome </link>
• 2014: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Morland_Scholarship" rel="mw:ExtLink" title="Miles Morland Scholarship" class="mw-redirect cx-link" data-linkid="125">Miles Morland Scholarship</a>

• 2017: Rockefeller Bellagio Artist's Residency

• 2020:Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant, finalist
• 2020: Tebere Arts Foundation Omuwandiisi w'emizannyo Residency
• 2021: Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant.
• 2022: La Porte Peinte Residency.
• 2022: The Gretchen J.Bryant Freedom to Write Distinguished Fellowship.

Ebijuliziddwa

Okukunganya emboozi ennyimpi

• Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe. University of Massachusetts Press. 2005.ISBN 978-1-55848-477-0

Obutabo bw'abaana

• Gamba the Gecko Wants to Drum. Storymoja Africa.2010. ISBN 9789966001115.
• My Fingers are Stuck. Storymoja Africa. 2010. ISBN 9789966001092

Emboozi ennyimpi

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/Collected/Broadcast
“Her Generous Body”	2022	The Georgia ReviewPotomac Review,
“Family is Family"	2022	Joyful, Joyful: Stories Celebrating Black Voices Two Hoots/Pan Macmillan UK
"Lucky"	2021	Ibua Journal	Evergreen Review, Fall/Winter 2021
"Una Ragazza" ("A Girl")	2018	Grace and Gravity: Fiction by Washington Area Women, Paycock Press, October 2004	As "Holy Shit!", Kwani? 04, 2007
"The Exam"	2014	Broadcast on BBC4, March 2014
"Gorging"	2013	The Caravan: A Journal of Politics & Culture, India (Online), May 2013
"Man and Son"	2012	Africa Inside Out, University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, SA, March 2012
"The Messenger"	2011	Transition, 50th Anniversary edition, November 2011
"Christianity Killed the Cat	2007	Cain Prize Anthology	Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing, April 2009 -Republished in St. Petersburg Review, 2008 -Republished in Air Uganda Inflight Magazine, Oct. – Dec. 2008
"Anointed"	2010	AGNI, November 2010	Gods and Soldiers: The Air Uganda Inflight Magazine, October–December 2008
"Eden Burning"	2008	Chimurenga 12, March 2008	The Manchester Review, July 2017
"Kadongo Kamu – One Beat"	2005	Story Quarterly, Fall 2005	The Sunday Monitor, February 2006
"One Woman’s Body"	2005	Seventh Street Alchemy, Jacana Press, 2005	Macmillan Anthology of Short Stories for East Africa
"Afterward"	2004	L’Officiel Italia, September 2018
"Depth of Blue"	2004	Gargoyle #48, Fall 2004
"A New Kind of Blue"	2003		Voice of America, 2003
"Fallen Fruit"	2002	Spring/Summer 2002	Voice of America, May 2004

Ebitali bya biwandiiko

• "Enkovu", Okuddamu okwetegereza ensuku z'enseenene, Ekyeya 2002
• "Emboozi Zaffe Si Bikangabwa Byonna", The Guardian, 2 August 2005
• "Ensisinkano", Magazini ya "O", South Afrika, February 2006
• Omuko ogufuluma buli mwezi mu magazini ya African Woman, April 2006 okutuuka mu 2008
• "Lamu Lover", mu It's All Love: Abawandiisi Abaddugavu ku Soul Mates, Family and Friends, Broadway Books/Doubleday, 2009
• "Ekigambo Ekisembayo", Alipoota ya Afrika, December 2009
• “Hargeisa Snapshots”, Ebibuga bya Afrika II: Entambula n’emizannyo, 2011
• “Ekkubo lya Tuk-tuk erigenda e Suya n’emmunyeenye”, AGNI, September 2012
• “Lwaki Owandiika?” START, Journal for by’emikono n’obuwangwa mu buvanjuba bwa Afrika, July 2013
• “Betty Oyella Bigombe” mu Bwe Tuba Bavumu: Abakyala Abakyusa Ensi Yaffe Efuuse Efuuse Ku Ddiyo, Nobel Women’s Initiative, 2016
• “Olugendo: Ebony Ava Harper” mu Mutala Guno Ayitibwa Omukazi, H. J. Twongyeirwe & A. T. Lichtenstein, eds. , Ebitabo bya Femrite, 2022.
• “Okuddamu okwetegereza olukalala lw’ekirabo kya AKO Caine mu 2022,” Ennyiriri ttaano, Brittle Paper, July 2022.

Ebiyungo eby’ebweru

• Jennifer Ludden, "Endowooza ya Uganda ey'omulembe guno mu 'byennyanja eby'omu bitundu eby'obutiti'", NPR, 6 February 2005
• Christina Lee, "Okuwuniikirira kw'omuwandiisi: Omuwandiisi Doreen Baingana Yetegekera okuwandiika emboozi y'entambula okuva mu kujjukira", Washington City Paper, 18 November 2010.