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. 

 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 . [ <span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2022)">citation needed</span> ] 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: Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Africa Region

 2006: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction, finalist
 2011: Norman Mailer Center Fellowship mu bitontome 
 2014: Miles Morland Scholarship

 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 
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/Collected/Broadcast“Her Generous Body”2022The Georgia ReviewPotomac Review,“Family is Family"2022Joyful, Joyful: Stories Celebrating Black Voices Two Hoots/Pan Macmillan UK"Lucky"2021Ibua JournalEvergreen Review, Fall/Winter 2021"Una Ragazza" ("A Girl")2018Grace and Gravity: Fiction by Washington Area Women, Paycock Press, October 2004As "Holy Shit!", Kwani? 04, 2007"The Exam"2014Broadcast on BBC4, March 2014"Gorging"2013The Caravan: A  Journal of Politics & Culture, India (Online), May 2013"Man and Son"2012Africa Inside Out, University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, SA, March 2012"The Messenger"2011Transition, 50th Anniversary edition, November 2011"Christianity  Killed the Cat2007Cain Prize AnthologyGods 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"2010AGNI,  November 2010Gods and Soldiers: The

Air Uganda Inflight  Magazine, October–December 2008"Eden Burning"2008Chimurenga 12, March 2008The Manchester Review, July 2017"Kadongo Kamu – One Beat"2005Story Quarterly, Fall 2005The Sunday Monitor, February  2006"One  Woman’s Body"2005Seventh Street Alchemy, Jacana Press, 2005Macmillan Anthology of Short Stories for East Africa"Afterward"2004L’Officiel  Italia, September 2018"Depth of Blue"2004Gargoyle #48, Fall 2004"A New Kind of Blue"2003Voice of America, 2003"Fallen Fruit"2002Spring/Summer 2002Voice 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. 

 Ebijuliziddwa 

 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.