# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elvania-namukwaya-zirimu
# Generated: 2026-08-16T08:25:33.621Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elvania-namukwaya-zirimu"
name: "Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu"
slug: "elvania-namukwaya-zirimu"
description: "Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu was a Ugandan poet and dramatist. She formed the Ngoma Players, with the policy of writing and producing Ugandan plays, and was actively concerned with the National Theatre. She belonged to the early generation of English-language Ugandan writers and playwrights that includes novelist Okello Oculi, playwright John Ruganda, and novelist Austin Bukenya. Her best-known work is the one-act play Keeping up with the Mukasas, included in David Cook's 1965 anthology of East African plays, Origin East Africa."
tagline: "Ugandan poet (1938-1979)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Elvania_Namukwaya_Zirimu%2C_Ugandan_poet.jpg/330px-Elvania_Namukwaya_Zirimu%2C_Ugandan_poet.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-08-31"
deathDate: "1979-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.8
  momentum:             1.666666666666666
  historical:           5.068430666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvania_Namukwaya_Zirimu"
    title: "Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88"
    title: "الفانيا ناموكوايا زيريمو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvania_Namukwaya_Zirimu"
    title: "Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88"
    title: "الوانیا ناموکوایا زیریمو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://guw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvania_Namukwaya_Zirimu"
    title: "Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvania_Namukwaya_Zirimu"
    title: "Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15462700"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump