# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hilda-j-twongyeirwe
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:15:08.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hilda-j-twongyeirwe"
name: "Hilda J Twongyeirwe"
slug: "hilda-j-twongyeirwe"
description: "Hilda Twongyeirwe is a Ugandan writer and editor. For ten years, she taught English language and literature in secondary school, before she retired to do development work in 2003. She is an editor, a published author of short stories and poetry, and a recipient of a National Medal of the government of Uganda in recognition of her contribution to women's Empowerment through Literary arts (2018). She is also a recipient of a Certificate of Recognition (2008) from the National Book Trust of Uganda for her children's book, Fina the Dancer. She is currently the coordinator of FEMRITE, an organization she participated in founding in 1995. She has edited fiction and creative nonfiction works, the most recent one being, No Time to Mourn (2020) by South Sudanese women. She has also edited others including; I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival (2012) and Taboo? Voices of Women on Female Genital Mutilation (2013)."
tagline: "Ugandan writer known for her feminist poetry highlighting women’s rights and empowerment"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hilda_Twongyeirwe-Foire_du_livre_de_Francfort_2017_(3).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           39.85
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.937797333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ہلڈا ٹونگیئروے"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump