Violet Barungi

**Violet Barungi** yazaalibwa 18 Ogwekkuminebiri 1943. Munayuganda omuwandiisi era omusunsuzi. Asunsudde ebiwandiiko ebiwerako ebyafulumizibwa FEMRITE. Ebitabo bye ebyafulumizibwa kuliko akatabo akayitibwa *Cassandra*. akoze ng'omukulu w'ebifulumizibwa ku East African Literature Bureau (1972), omukulu w'okukuba ebitabo ku Uganda Literature Bureau (1978-94) era omusunsuzi ku FEMRITE(1997 okutuuka kati).

## Obulamu bwe obwasooka n'obuyigirize
Violet Barungi yazaalibwa mu disitulikiti eye Mbarara, kati eyitibwa Ibanda District, mu Bugwanjuba bwa Uganda. Yasomesebwa ku Bweranyangi Girls' Senior Secondary School, Gayaza High School ne Makerere University mu Kampala, gyeyatikkirwa diguli esooka mu byafaayo. Mufumbo era alina abaana mukaaga.

## Okuwandiika
Violet Barungi yatandika okuwandiika nbweyali akyali muyizi. Emboozi ye enyimpi eyasookera ddala, "Kefa Kazana", yafulumizibwa mu Origin East Africa, ekitabo ekirimu ebyafaayo ebitonotono ekyasunsulibwa Prof. David Cook n'aweereza ku BBC mu 1964. Omuzannyo gwa Barungi Over My Dead Body gwawangula ekirabo kya British Council New Playwriting Award for Africa and The Middle East mu 1997, era oluvannyuma gwafulumizibwa mu African Women Playwrights, nga gukulemberwa Profesa Kathy Perkins, omukugu mu mizannyo gya African and African Diaspora.

Ebiwandiiko byeyafulumya mwe muli The Shadow and the Substance (ekitabo) ekyafulumizibwa Lake Publishers, Kenya, 1998, *Cassandra* (ekitabo ekirala) ekyafulumiziddwa FEMRITE Publications Limited, Uganda, 1999, emboozi enyimpimpi ez'abaana nga Tit for Tat and other stories (1997), The Promise (2002), Our Cousins From Abroad (2003) ne The Boy Who Became King (2004). Omuzannyo gwe Over My Dead Body (ogutafulumizibwa) gwawangula ekirabo kya British Council International New Playwriting Award mu Africa ne Middle East mu 1997. Emizannyo gye emirala mwe muli The Award-winner, omuzannyo ogw'oku siteegi ogwawandiikibwa okujjukira emirimu gy'abakyala mu kyaasa ekipya (ogutafulumizibwa) n'omuzannyo gw'oku leediyo ogutafulumizibwað, The Bleeding Heart.

Emirimu gya Violet Barungi okusingira ddala gikwata ku nkolagana z'abantu, ensonga z'ekikula ky'abantu n'okusoma kw'omwana omuwala. Over My Dead Body yagugya kungeri abaana ab'obuwala gyebafumbizibwamu nga bakyali bato eri abasajja abagagga nga tebanamaliriza misomo gyabwe. Ensonga bwezitatambula bulungi olwo obufumbo bwabwe nebulema, besanga nga tebalina kye basobola kuddamu.

## Okusunsula
Barungi y'omu kubatandisi ba FEMRITE. Yali musunsuzi wa FEMRITE okuva mu 1997 okutuuka mu 2007, lwe yawummula. Emirundi egiwerako abadde omu ku basunsula ebiwandiiko ebifulumizibwa FEMRITE, okuva lwe yawummula.

## Ebitabo

### Ebitabo by'amawulire

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### Ebitabo by'abaana

* Change of Heart. Oxford Univbersity Press.2011. ISBN 978-019-5736-89-2.
*  Hope Restored. Oxford University Press.2008
* Wanda Asks Questions. Macmillan Pubblishers,Uganda.2009
*  A lucky Escape.Macmillan Publishers,Uganda 2009. ISBN 978-0-230-533-13-4.
*  Jena Breaks a Promise. Macmillan Publishers,Uganda.2009.ISBN 978-0-230-533-18-9
*  The Baby in the Forest.Uganda Children's Writers and Illustrators Association.2009.OCLC 898421250.
*  Our Cousins from Abroad(a modern short story for Children).Uganda Children's Writers and Illustrators Association.2003.
*  The Boy who Became King. Uganda Children's Writers and Illustratora Association.2003/ with Rose Rwakasisi
*   The promise.Uganda Children's Writers and Illustrators Association.2002.with Rose Rwakasisi
*   Tit for Tat.1998. 

### Emboozi enyimpimpi

* "Impenetrable Barriers" mu Butterfly Wings (olukalala lw'ebyafaayo ebitonotono, 2010). Critical, Cultural and Communication Press. 2010. ISBN .
* "Okutya okwagala kwange" mu Violet Barungi, ed. (2009). *Enfumo z'okwogera*. Ebitabo by'abakyala. ISBN .
* "Jago Goes to School" mu Children Read Everywhere, olukalala lw'ebyafaayo by'abaana ebitonotono ebyawandiikibwa Betten ne Resch 2002 era ne bifulumizibwa mu Germany, 2003.
* "The Last One to Know", mu Karooro Okurut, ed. (1998). *Eddoboozi ly'Omukazi*. Ebitabo by'abakyala. ISBN .

### Emizannyo

* "Over My Dead Body" mu Kathy A. Perkins, ed. (2008). *Abakyala Abafirika Abawandiisi b'emizannyo*. University of Illinois Press. ISBN .
* *Omutima* oguva omusaayi (okuzannya ku leediyo)
* *Omuwanguzi w'ekirabo*, 2000

### Emirimu egisunsuddwa

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*  Violet Barungi, ed.(2009)
*  Violet Barungi and Hilda Twongyeirwe, ed.(2009). Beyond the Dance: Voices of women on *female genital mutilation*. Femrite Publications. ISBN 9789970700196  
*  Violet Barungi and Susan Kiguli, ed.(2007). DARE TO SAY:5 testimonies by *Ugandan women liviing positively with HIV/Aids*: Femrite Publications. ISBN 978-9602088906
*  Violet Barungi, ed.(2006). *Gifts of Harvest.* Femrite Publications. ISBN 078-9970700042
*  Violet Barungi,ed.(2006). *In Their Own Words*: The First Ten Years of FEMRITE. Femrite Publications.
*  Ayeta Ann Wangusa and Violet Barungi,ed.(2002). *Tears of Hope: A Collection of short Stories by Ugandan Rural Women*. Femrite Publications. ISBN 978-9970700028.
*  Violet Barungi,ed.(2001).*Words from a granary*. Femrite Publications. ISBN 9789970700011
*  Mary Karooro Okurut and Violet Barungi, ed.(1998). *A Woman's Voice: An Anthology of Short Stories*. Femrite Publications. ISBN 9789970901036.

## Awaadi n'okusiimibwa

* Yawangula ekirabo kya British Council New Playwriting Award mu Africa ne Middle East mu 1997 olw'omuzannyo gwe "Over My Dead Body".

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