Education
Makerere University.
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Doreen Baingana
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She gave a talk on TED 2013 about "The role of offensive language in novels" Mississippi Baingana obtained a law degree from Makerere University, Uganda, and an Master of Fine Arts from the University of Maryland, United States of America. Baingana lived in the United States of America for over a decade before returning to Uganda.
Achievements
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Shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2004 and 2005. Won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award (Africa region) in 2006 for her collection of short stories, Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe. Awarded an Associated Writers and Programmes Award for short fiction. Won the Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize Won an Emerging Writer’s Fellowship from The Writer’s Center.
Membership
While at Makerere University Baingana was an active member of FEMRITE - Uganda Women Writers Association, which she has referred to as "a literary home of sorts".
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Political Party
New Vision
Awards
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the Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize; Commonwealth Writers' Prize; the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Caine Prize; Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.; The Caine Prize for African is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, published in the English language.The Commonwealth Writers' Prize was a literary award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation, which awarded prizes for established and new writers across the Commonwealth of Nations.; The Caine Prize for African is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, published in the English language.