Violet Barungi (born 18 December 1943) is a Ugandan writer and editor.
She has edited several publications published by FEMRITE. Her
published books include the novel Cassandra. She has worked as a book
Production Officer at the East African Literature Bureau (1972â€"77),
senior Book Production Officer at Uganda Literature Bureau (1978â€"94)
and an editor at FEMRITE (1997 to date).Violet Barungi was born in
Mbarara District, now Ibanda District, Western Uganda. She was
educated at Bweranyangi Girls' Senior Secondary School, Gayaza High
School and Makerere University in Kampala, where she graduated with an
honours degree in History. She is married and has six children.Violet
Barungi started writing while she was still a student. Her first short
story, "Kefa Kazana", was published in Origin East Africa, an
anthology of short stories edited by Prof. David Cook and broadcast on
the BBC in 1964. Barungi’s play Over My Dead Body won the British
Council New Playwriting Award for Africa and The Middle East in 1997,
and has been subsequently anthologized in African Women Playwrights,
edited by Professor Kathy Perkins, an authority on African and African
Diaspora theatre.Her publications include The Shadow and the Substance
(novel) published by Lake Publishers, Kenya, 1998, Cassandra (novel)
published by FEMRITE Publications Limited, Uganda, 1999, short stories
for children, which include Tit for Tat and other stories (1997), The
Promise (2002), Our Cousins From Abroad (2003) and The Boy Who Became
King (2004). Her play Over My Dead Body (unpublished) won the British
Council International New Playwriting Award for Africa and the Middle
East region, 1997. Her other plays include The Award-winner, a stage
play written to commemorate women’s creative works in the new
millennium (unpublished) and an unpublished radio play, The Bleeding
Heart.
She has edited several publications published by FEMRITE. Her
published books include the novel Cassandra. She has worked as a book
Production Officer at the East African Literature Bureau (1972â€"77),
senior Book Production Officer at Uganda Literature Bureau (1978â€"94)
and an editor at FEMRITE (1997 to date).Violet Barungi was born in
Mbarara District, now Ibanda District, Western Uganda. She was
educated at Bweranyangi Girls' Senior Secondary School, Gayaza High
School and Makerere University in Kampala, where she graduated with an
honours degree in History. She is married and has six children.Violet
Barungi started writing while she was still a student. Her first short
story, "Kefa Kazana", was published in Origin East Africa, an
anthology of short stories edited by Prof. David Cook and broadcast on
the BBC in 1964. Barungi’s play Over My Dead Body won the British
Council New Playwriting Award for Africa and The Middle East in 1997,
and has been subsequently anthologized in African Women Playwrights,
edited by Professor Kathy Perkins, an authority on African and African
Diaspora theatre.Her publications include The Shadow and the Substance
(novel) published by Lake Publishers, Kenya, 1998, Cassandra (novel)
published by FEMRITE Publications Limited, Uganda, 1999, short stories
for children, which include Tit for Tat and other stories (1997), The
Promise (2002), Our Cousins From Abroad (2003) and The Boy Who Became
King (2004). Her play Over My Dead Body (unpublished) won the British
Council International New Playwriting Award for Africa and the Middle
East region, 1997. Her other plays include The Award-winner, a stage
play written to commemorate women’s creative works in the new
millennium (unpublished) and an unpublished radio play, The Bleeding
Heart.
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