Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
(Uganda) grew up in Uganda and studied creative writing at the University of Lancaster in the UK; she received her doctorate in the same subject. In 2013 she received the Kwani Manuscript Project for her thesis project, The Kintu Saga. This prize is given to still-unpublished manscripts by African writers. Her manuscript was published as a novel, titled Kintu, in 2014. She has won various other prizes including the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for "Let's Tell This Story Properly" and the 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. A mixture of Ugandan oral storytelling traditions, folktakes, myths, biblical elements and history is characteristic of her work. She lives and works in Manchester, where she teaches creative writing at the university.
Past events
Who Wants to Live Forever?
Seven authors read their visions on the future.
Eternal Texts
Writers from Uganda and Israel, and poet and translator Kawa Nemir chose literature, songs, speeches and sacred books with eternal value.
Myths as Identity Arena
Old myths continue to influence our identity and relationship with the other. With the Indian mythologist Arshia Sattar, Jennifer Makumbi from Uganda and Maarten van der Graaf from The Netherlands. Writer Rodaan Al Galidi read from his work.
