Susan Nalugwa Kiguli

Susan Nalugwa Kiguli (yazaalibwa nga 24 Ogw'omukaaga 1969 mu Disitulikiti y'eLuweero mu Uganda) Munnayuganda omutontomi era omukugu mu by'ennimi. Ye ppulofeesa ey'ebuuzibwako mu by'okuwandiika ku Makerere University. Kiguli abadde musaale mu kutubumbula okuwandiika okuyiiye mu Africa. Aweerezza nga omutandisi era mmemba wa FEMRITE, musazi wa mpaka mu mpaka za Commonwealth Writers' Prize (mu kitundu kya Africa mu 1999), era nga ali ku lukiiko oluwabuzi olwa African Writers Trust. Nga omutontomi, Kiguli asinze kumanyika lwa Kitontome kya The African Saga eky'afulimizibwa mu 1998, nga omukugu, mu mulimu gwe ogw'ebitontome.

Okusoma kwe

 

• 2005: Doctor of Philosophy mu Lungereza, Mu Yunivaasite ya The University of Leeds, esangibwa mu Leeds, e Bungereza
• 1996: Master of Science mu kuwandiika ku nnimi okusobola okusomesa olulimi Olungereza ne nnimi endala n'okuwandiika ku University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, e Bungereza
• 1994: Master of Arts mu Bye'ennimi n'okuwandiika ku, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
• 1991: Diguli mu Busomesa ku Makerere University  

Kiguli yeeyunze nkungaana ezenjawulo nga omutontomi era omusomi w'ebiwandiikohas participated,nga mugino mulimu ogwa International Literature Festival Berlin (2008); ogwa Poetry Africa Festival mu Kwazulu–Natal, e South Africa (2009); ogwa World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya (2007); n'ogwa Leeds Centre for African Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom (2005).

Nga oggyeko ekitontome kye ekya The African Saga ekyasiimibwa ennyo, era nekimuwanguza awaadi ya National Book Trust of Uganda Poetry Award (1999), Kiguli awandiise ebitontome by'abaana nga bina ku bino kuliko aba n'ekyakwata aba Books LIVE omubabiro, ekya "Animal Portraits by Susan Kiguli (Note of Affection No. 4, Love Africa Carnival)" era ky'alondebwa abasomi nga ekitontome ekyasinga okwagalwa mu mwezi." Kiguli yayogera ku nsoma ye ey'ebiwandiiko okuva obuto bwe yabuuzibwa aba BooksLIVE.

Kiguli era atadde ettaffaali ku bitontome by'abaana mu Michael's Eyes: The War against the Ugandan Child, nga kino ky'akolebwa abantu mu nsi yonna nga "kigendereddwamu okutumbula okumanya mu nsi yonna ku mbeera eri mu Mambuka ga Uganda," nga okusinga kyali ku bizibu ebireetebwa abayeekera ba Lord's Resistance Army.

Ebitontome bya Kiguli byateekebwa ne mu Eye of the Storm: A Photographic Journey Across Uganda, nga ebifaananyi by'akubibwa David Pluth ne Pierre-Francois Didek.

Kiguli era alabikiddeko mu Ultra Violet: Indian feminists unplugged, nga by'akolebwa aba Department of English & Creative Writing, Lancaster University. emirimu gye gigattidwa ne mu 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa, eby'alongoosebwa Margaret Busby.

Sikaala n'ebyogerwa ku mirimu gye

Yawaanibwa omutontomi Alex Smith nga "nga eddoboozi ly'obutontomi mu Buvanjuba bwa Africa erikenkufu ensangi zino," Kiguli yali omu kukakiiko aka American Council of Learned Societies aka 2010, nga okunoonyereza kwe kusimbidde ku "Okutontoma mu Bigambo naakayimba akaatiikirivu mu ne Uganda: A Study of Contemporary Performance.”

Ku nsonga eyo era,Ebintu Kiguli byakoze kuliko, “Okuwa akabonero akalaga ebivulu mu Buganda: Kuno kuliko; Ekitoobero ne Enkuuka y’omwaka,” mu nsonga y'okuyimba (2008) wamu "N'okuteekawo ekiraga okugenda mu maaso mu buwangwa ne nnono: Okugeza ennyimba eziyimbibwa mu Enkuuka y’omwaka” mu nkyukakyuka mu kusanyusa (2009).

Alex Smith naye yasanga amakulu mu bigambo bya Kiguli mu kitontome kya A Hundred Silences, nga ky'ekusatu mu byakunganyizibwa Gabeba Baderoon.

By'afulumizza

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Ebitontome bye

• "I laugh at Amin","My mother in three photographs" in  A thousand voices rising: An anthology of contemporary African poetry. BN Poetry Foundation. ISBN <bdi>978-9970-9234-0-3</bdi>.
• "Weeping landa" in  Femrite Publications. 2009. ISBN <bdi>978-9970-700-18-9</bdi>.

External links

• "When Kiguli treated us to a poetry fest "
• "Animal Portraits by Susan Kiguli (Note of Affection #4, Love Africa Carnival)"
• "Susan Kiguli’s formative reading experiences"
• Webcast at the Library of Congress 16 November 2011