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 Violet Barungi was born in Mbarara district, Western
Uganda. She was educated at Bweranyangi Girls’ School, Gayaza
High School and Makerere University, Kampala, where she graduated
with an honours degree in History. She is married and has six children.
Work Experience:
- 1972-1977 – Book Production Officer, East African Literature
Bureau
- 1978-1994 – Senior Book Production Officer, Uganda Literature Bureau
- 1997-To-date - Editor, FEMRITE (Uganda Women Writers Association
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 Her play, Over My Dead Body (unpublished)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creative works in the new millennium (unpublished) and The Bleeding
Heart, a radio play (unpublished).
Violet Barungi’s works deal mainly with human relationships,
gender issues and education of the girl child. Over My Dead Body
was inspired by her deep concern for girls who are lured into early
marriages to rich men before they finish their education. When things
go wrong, and their marriages fail, they find themselves without anything
to fall back on.
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Violet Barungi