Glaydah Namukasa is a

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writer"Women writing in Africa. A Bibliography of Anglophone Women Writers
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."Dreams Dreams and Dreams! By Glaydah Namukasa"
author-me.com. Retrieved 30 November 2011. She is the author of two novels, ''Voice of a Dream''
completreview.com. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
african-writing.com. Retrieved 7 February 2014. and ''Deadly Ambition''."The Deadly Ambition (by Glaydah Namukasa)"
africabookclub.com, 9 January 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2014. She is a member of

FEMRITE FEMRITE – Uganda Women Writers' Association, founded in 1995, is an NGO based in Kampala, Uganda, whose programmes focus on developing and publishing women writers in Uganda and—more recently—in the East African region. ...

, the Ugandan Women Writer's Association,"History of FEMRITE, the Uganda Women Writers' Association
Retrieved 22 August 2011.Ava-Matthew, Lois: "FEMRITE and Ugandan Women Writers"
Belletrista. 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2011 and is currently (2014) its Chairperson."The 2014 Writivism Mentors"
Writivism, 25 December 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2014. She is one of the 39 African writers announced as part of the

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project unveiled by Rainbow,

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and

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at the

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2014. It is a list of 39 of Sub-Saharan Africa's most promising writers under the age of 40.Africa39 list of artists
Hay Festival, 8 April 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
''The Bookseller'', 8 April 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014."Chimamanda, Tope Folarin, Stanley Kenani, others make Africa 39 list"
. CityVoice, 10 April 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014."Africa 39 List is out"
, Lesleigh Kenya, 9 April 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014.Glaydah NAMUKASA
hayfestival.com. Retrieved 11 April 2014.Africa39 Authors Biographies
, hayfestival.com. Retrieved 11 April 2014.

Early life and education

Glaydah was born in

Entebbe Entebbe is a city in Central Uganda. Located on a Lake Victoria peninsula, approximately southwest of the Ugandan capital city, Kampala. Entebbe was once the seat of government for the Protectorate of Uganda prior to independence, in 1962. The c ...

, Uganda. Bereaved of her father as a child, she grew up in Entebbe with her mother, three sisters and two brothers. She studied in Nkumba Primary School, then Entebbe Secondary School. She graduated as a midwife in June 2000 at

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Nursing School. Currently, she is working with

Wakiso District Wakiso District is a district in the Central Region of Uganda that partly encircles Kampala, Uganda's capital city. The town of Wakiso is the site of the district headquarters. Kira, the country's second largest city and suburb of Kampala, is in ...

. She joined the Uganda Female Writers Association, FEMRITE in 2002. Later she joined the

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Crossing Borders creative writing scheme."The Deadly Ambition (Paperback) Glaydah Namukasa"
abebooks.com. Retrieved 7 February 2014. She started her writing career by telling stories to fellow students at Nkumba Primary and Entebbe Secondary School. She used to ask herself why she could not write the stories instead. She would use exercise books to record her stories and later request friends to read through the work. One of her enthusiastic friends, Andrew Byogi, who read them over and over again, recommended her to FEMRITE, where she became an activist and active writer."Ugandan Writers: Meet Glaydah Namukasa"
AfroLit, 25 January 2006. Retrieved 30 November 2009.

Writing

Glaydah's young adult novel, ''Voice of a Dream'',"Macmillan honours writer"
, newvision.co.ug. Retrieved 30 November 2009."Voice of a Dream by Glaydah Namukasa"
, BookDragon. Retrieved 6 February 2014. won the 2005/2006 Macmillan Writers Prize for Africa-Senior Prize
Lancaster/Uganda Friends Writing Project. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
, Lancaster University, 25 January 2006. Retrieved 30 November 2009. She was awarded the 2006 Michael and Marylee Fairbanks International Fellowship to attend the Breadloaf Writers' Conference in

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, USA. Her second novel, ''Deadly Ambition'', was published in 2006 as part of the Crossing Borders project. In fall 2008 she was awarded the title of Honorary Fellow by the International Writers Program (IWP), University of Iowa, USA."Glaydah Namukasa Reading"
, ''The Bi-College News'', 23 November 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2014."Ugandan Writer Glaydah Namukasa Gave a Reading at Haverford College on November 18, 2008"
, haverford.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2014."Glaydah NAMUKASA"
iwp.uiowa.edu Retrieved 6 February 2014. She has also been a visiting writer in residence at

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"City of Asylum™ Visiting International Writer Residencies"
, cityofasylumpittsburgh. Retrieved 6 February 2014 and

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International writers' residence, Hudson, New York, where she began drafting her second novel. As a participant on Friends of Writing, she is working on her novel ''Crossing the Bramble Field'' with mentor

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."Glaydah Namukasa Ugandan writer"
belletrista.com. Retrieved 6 February 2014. In 2012, her story "My New Home""My new Home"
wordswithoutborders.org. Retrieved 6 February 2014.Carmen McCain
"Words Without Borders Draws Attention to African Women Writing in Indigenous Languages"
''A Tunanina…'', 12 October 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2014."Glaydah Namukasa"
Words Without Borders. Retrieved 6 February 2014. was part of a project that featured African women on indigenous writing. Her short stories have been published in anthologies in Uganda, South Africa, Sweden and the UK, including in ''

New Daughters of Africa ''Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present'' is a compilation of orature and literature by more than 200 women from Africa and the African diaspora, ...

'' (2019), edited by

Margaret Busby Margaret Yvonne Busby, , Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisherJazzmine Breary"Let' ...

.Tom Odhiambo
"'New Daughters of Africa' is a must read for aspiring young women writers"
''Daily Nation'' (Kenya), 18 January 2020. Namukasa has written three books for children, all published under the Pan African, Macmillan imprint.

Published works

Novels

* *

Short stories

* "And Still Hope Survives", in * "Then Now and Tomorrow", in * "The Naked Bones", in * "Ojera's Final Hope", in * "The Second Twin", in
"My New Home"
Words Without Borders, 2013

authorme.com

Poems

*"Yet Hope Survives", ''Sable Magazine'', UK (shortlisted for the Ken Sarowiwa Legacy) 2004 *"That Place", FEMRITE ''Word Write Journal'', 2004, republished in Poetry Poster Project, 2008

References

External links

*Beatrice Lamwaka

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