Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan novelist and short story writer. She has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel,  Kintu (Oneworld, 2028), won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. She won the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for ‘Let’s Tell This Story Properly’, which featured in her first collection, Manchester Happened (Oneworld, 2019), and was awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2018. Her most recent novel, The First Woman, won the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, was shortlisted for the Encore Award and the James Tait Black Prize, and longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She lives in Manchester, where she lectures in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.