Eneriko Seruma

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| birth_date = 1944

| birth_place = Uganda

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| occupation = Writer

| nationality = Ugandan

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| alma_mater = St. Mary's College Kisubi

| genre = Poetry, novels, short stories

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| notableworks = The Experience; The Heart Seller

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Eneriko Seruma is the pen name for Ugandan poet, novelist and short story writer Henry S. Kimbugwe (born 1944). He is the author of the novel The Experience[http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/uganda/seruma.htm The Experience by Eneriko Seruma] at complete-review.com. Retrieved 29 May 2014.O. R. Dathorne(1975). "African Literature in the Twentieth Century", p. 134. University of Minnesota Press. {{ISBN|9780816607693}}. and a collection of short stories titled The Heart Seller. He also wrote poems and short stories for leading East African journals and magazines in the 1960s and 1970s, including for Ghala, Busara, Zuka and Transition.Simon Gikandi (2003). "Encyclopedia of African Literature", p.689. Routledge, {{ISBN|9781134582235}}.'

Early life and education

Seruma was born in Uganda and educated in the United States. He attended St. Mary's College Kisubi for his secondary education. He attended, and graduated from, Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont. He was the public relations officer for the East African Publishing House and was an award winner of the East Africa Literature Bureau's and Deutsche Welle's creative writing competitions.G. D. Killam, Alicia L. Kerfoot (2008). Student Encyclopedia of African Literature, p. 287. ABC-CLIO. {{ISBN|9780313335808}}.Simon Gikwandi, Evan Mwangi (2013). The Columbian Guide to East African Lliterat'ure in English Since 1945, p. 160. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0231125208}}.

Published works

=Novels=

  • {{cite book|title=The Experience| publisher=East African Publishing House | year= 1970|isbn=}}

=Short story collections=

  • {{cite book|title=The Heart Seller: Short stories (Modern African library, 21)| publisher=East African Publishing House | year= 1971|isbn=}}

=Anthologies=

  • "The Town", in {{cite book|title=Half a Day anOther Stories: an anthology of short stories from north eastern and eastern Africa| editor=Ayebia Clarke|publisher=Macmillan Kenya | year= 2004|isbn=9789966340856}}

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