Tag: The First Woman
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi on UK’s Encore Award 2021 shortlist.
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s The First Woman is on the shortlist of the UK’s Royal Society of Literature Encore Award 2021 announced today, May 5, 2021. The Encore Award was first presented in 1990 to celebrate the achievement of outstanding second novels. The Award fills a niche in the catalogue of literary prizes. The Royal Society…
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s novel “The First Woman” cover revealed.
The cover for Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s second novel The First Woman, to be published by Oneworld on June 4, 2020, has been revealed. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, who won the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction last year, first came to prominence when she won the Kwani Manuscript Project in 2013. She would give us an exquisite gem…