Mildred Barya

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Mildred Kiconco Barya (born August 1, 1976 in the Kabale district , Uganda ) is a Ugandan writer, poet and journalist. In 2008, Barya received the Pan African Literary Forum Prize for “African Fiction”.

Life

Mildred Kiconco Barya was born on August 1, 1976 in the Kabale district in southwest Uganda and attended Mwisi Elementary School and Kigezi High School.

education

In 1996 she received a full scholarship to visit Makerere University in Uganda and graduated from the university in 1999 with a degree in literature.

In 2002 she studied publishing science at Moi University in Eldoret (Kenya), from 2002 to 2004 she studied organizational psychology at the same institution and graduated with a master's degree. In 2012, she completed her PhD in creative writing from the University of Denver .

Writing career

Barya published her first collection of poems entitled Men Love Chocolates But They Don't Say in 2002, winning the Ugandian National Book Trust Award in the same year. She received numerous positive reviews, so in 2006 she published her second collection of poems, The Price of Memory: After the Tsunami .

Between 2006 and 2007 Barya had a writer's residence followship as part of the Per Sesh Writing Program in Popenguine , Senegal , and was supervised by the Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah . She wrote the manuscript for her first novel What Was Left Behind. In 2009 she published the third collection of poems entitled Give Me Room To Move My Feet .

In addition to poetry, Barya also published various short stories and novels. In 2008 she received the Pan African Literary Forum Prize for an excerpt from her novel What Was Left Behind for “African Fiction”.

2019 it was included in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby added.

further activities

In addition to her work as a writer, Barya worked as a human rights advisor for the management consultancy Ernst & Young . She is also the founder of the organization “African Writers Trust”, which promotes networking among African writers in the diaspora.

Works (selection)

  • 2009: Give Me Room To Move My Feet
  • 2006: The Price of Memory: After the Tsunami
  • 2002: Men Love Chocolates But They Don't Say

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Press release: 10 June 2008 for MildredBarya.com. (PDF) In: mildredbarya.com. August 10, 2008, accessed December 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Mildred Barya: Bio. In: mildredbarya.com. Retrieved December 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Jane Musoke-Nteyafas: Ugandan Writers: Meet Mildred Barya Kiconco. (No longer available online.) In: Afrolit.com. March 10, 2006, archived from the original on August 9, 2011 ; accessed on December 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / afrolit.com
personal data
SURNAME Barya, Mildred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barya, Mildred Kiconco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ugandan writer, poet and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabale District , Uganda