Doreen Baingana

Who is Doreen Baingana?

Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan short story writer and editor. Her book Tropical Fish, won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa Region, and the AWP Award for Short Fiction. She also won a Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize and has twice been a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. She was managing Editor at Story Moja, and was one of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize judges. She gave a talk on TED 2013 about "The role of offensive language in novels"