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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Kintu (2017)
   Manchester Happened (2019)
   The First Woman (2020)
     aka A Girl Is a Body of Water

Collections

Let's Tell This Story Properly (2019)

Award nominations

	2021 Encore Award (nominee) : The First Woman
	2020 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : The First Woman

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi recommends

The Quarter Queen (2026)
Kayla Hardy
"The Quarter Queen is a delight. It is the sort of book I read slowly because such novels are few and far between these days. Kayla Hardy is an incredible talent - a gifted storyteller with rich, generous, bold prose - and utterly fearless."

A Kind of Madness (2024)
Uche Okonkwo
"Hilarious and heartbreaking. . . . A delightful debut."

River Spirit (2023)
Leila Aboulela
"In River Spirit, Aboulela's writing soars. It is urgent and it is critical. She joins writers like Maaza Mengiste, Namwali Serpell and Ayesha Haruna Atta in excavating history, breathing life into it, and presenting it in a new light. It is so far my best read this year."

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