Lillian Tindyebwa

Lillian Tindyebwa
Born Lillian Tindyebwa
Uganda
Occupation writer
Nationality Ugandan
Alma mater Makerere University
Genre Fiction
Notable works Recipe for Disaster

Lillian Tindyebwa is a Ugandan writer living in Uganda. She is the author of numerous books, notably the novel Recipe for Disaster,[1] published in 1994 as part of the Fountain youth series. She is a founder member of FEMRITE.[2] From 2009 she was a member of the jury committee of the Burt Award for African Literature for Children's Book Project for Tanzania, sponsored by CODE Canada.[3] She also assisted in training the participating writers in creative writing skills. She is the Director of Uganda Faith Writers Association,[4] an organisation that trains and develops Christian writing and publishing.[5] She is married to Stephen and they have five children. She lives in Kampala, Uganda. She currently works as a Lecturer in Literature and Linguistics at Kabale University in South Western Uganda.[6]

Early life and education

Lillian Tindyebwa holds an MA in Literature from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

Writing career

Lillian's novel Recipe for Disaster (1994), published by Fountain Publishers, is used as a reader in secondary schools in Uganda. It is part of the Fountain youth series. She has written three children stories: A Day to Remember (2008), A will to Win (2008) and Maggie’s Friends (2008). They are all published by Macmillan Publishers. Her short story "Looking for my Mother" is published in a FEMRITE anthology, A Woman’s Voice. Other short stories in FEMRITE anthologies are: "Hard Truth" in Words from a Granary, "Endless Distance" in World of their Own, "Just a Note" and "Gift of a Letter", included in Talking Tales. True life stories of women, also published in FEMRITE anthologies are "Betrayed by Fate", "Beyond the Dance and the Music", which are about FGM in Kapchorwa, Eastern Uganda, and "Dance with a Wolf" in I Dare to Say.[5][7] She facilitated a writing workshop at Littworld 2012, in Nairobi.[8]

Published works

Novels

Children's books

Short stories

Poems

References

  1. Recipe for Disaster (by Lillian Tindyebwa) africabookclub.com. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  2. Lillian Tindyebwa, femriteug.org. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  3. Jury, codecan.org. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  4. Lillian Tindyebwa, ugandafaithwritersassociation.blogspot.com. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  5. 1 2 Lillian Tindyebwa, transculturalwriting.com. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  6. transculturalwriting Lillian Tindyebwa transculturalwriting.com. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  7. FEMRITE's Lillian Tindyebwa February 17, 2009, afrolit.com. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  8. "The smiles are warm", littworldonline.org, 29 November 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2014.

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