# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/goretti-kyomuhendo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:35:51.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/goretti-kyomuhendo"
name: "Goretti Kyomuhendo"
slug: "goretti-kyomuhendo"
description: "Goretti Kyomuhendo is a Ugandan novelist and the founding director of the African Writers Trust and TUBAZE African Books. She is the author of five novels: The First Daughter (1996); Secrets No More (1999), which won the Uganda National Literary Award for Best Novel; Waiting (2007), published by The Feminist Press in New York and later translated into Spanish; Whispers from Vera (2023); and Promises (2025), published by Catalyst Press in the United States."
tagline: "Ugandan writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Goretti_Kyomuhendo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.82
  momentum:             17.38709677419355
  historical:           8.340245333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جوريتى كيوموهيندو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Goretti Kyomuhendo"
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    title: "Goretti Kyomuhendo"
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    title: "Goretti Kyomuhendo"
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    title: "Goretti Kyomuhendo"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump