Jennifer Makumbi

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan-British novelist and short story writer. Her doctoral novel, The Kintu Saga, was shortlisted and won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013. It was published by Kwani Trust in 2014 under the title Kintu. Her short story collection, Manchester Happened, was published in 2019. She was shortlisted for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story "Let's Tell This Story Properly", and emerged Regional Winner, Africa region. She was declared the Overall Winner of the 2014 prize. Makumbi was also longlisted for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature, was in 2019 awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize in the fiction category, and in 2021 won the Jhalak Prize with her novel The First Woman.