Doreen Baingana
Doreen Baingana | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 58–59) Entebbe, Uganda |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Ugandan |
| Alma mater | Makerere University and University of Maryland, College Park. |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable works | Tropical Fish (2005) |
Doreen Baingana (born 1966) is a Ugandan writer. Her short story collection, Tropical Fish, won the Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction in 2003 and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book, Africa Region in 2006. Stories in it were finalists for the Caine Prize in 2004 and 2005. She was a Caine Prize finalist for the third time in 2021 and has received many other awards listed below.