Lillian Tindyebwa

Lillian Tindyebwa has said: "I was influenced through reading, and I grew up reading many books at home. My late father was a teacher of English and, although he never wrote, he read a lot. When I was in primary school, I particularly remember coming across an old copy of Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress among his things and reading it. I had often thought that I could be a writer, especially during my secondary school. For some unknown reason, possibly due to lack of role models, I did not get around to putting pen on paper until much later in my life."

She holds an MA in literature from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.[https://www.kab.ac.ug/staff-members/tindyebwa-lillian/ "Tindyebwa Lillian | Assistant Lecturer (Lit& Ling)"], Kabale University.

Tindyebwa's novel Recipe for Disaster (1994), published by Fountain Publishers, is used as a reader in secondary schools in Uganda. It is part of the Fountain youth series. She has written three children stories: A Day to Remember (2008), A Will to Win (2008) and Maggie’s Friends (2008). They are all published by Macmillan Publishers. Her short story "Looking for my Mother" is published in a FEMRITE anthology, A Woman’s Voice. Other short stories in FEMRITE anthologies are: "Hard Truth" in Words from a Granary, "Endless Distance" in World of their Own, "Just a Note" and "Gift of a Letter", included in Talking Tales. True life stories of women, also published in FEMRITE anthologies are "Betrayed by Fate", "Beyond the Dance and the Music", which are about FGM in Kapchorwa, Eastern Uganda, and "Dance with a Wolf" in I Dare to Say.[http://afrolit.com/femrite-s-lillian-tindyebwa/1041/l.aspx FEMRITE's Lillian Tindyebwa February 17, 2009], afrolit.com. Retrieved 22 April 2014. She facilitated a writing workshop at Littworld 2012, in Nairobi.[http://www.littworldonline.org/blog/tag/lillian-tindyebwa/ "The smiles are warm"], littworldonline.org, 29 November 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2014.

From 2009 she was a member of the jury committee of the Burt Award for African Literature for Children's Book Project for Tanzania, sponsored by CODE Canada.[http://www.codecan.org/burt-award/tanzania/jury Jury] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517160436/http://www.codecan.org/burt-award/tanzania/jury |date=17 May 2014 }}, codecan.org. Retrieved 22 April 2014. She also assisted in training the participating writers in creative writing skills. She is the Director of Uganda Faith Writers Association,[http://ugandafaithwritersassociation.blogspot.com/ Lillian Tindyebwa] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517120907/http://ugandafaithwritersassociation.blogspot.com/ |date=17 May 2014 }}, ugandafaithwritersassociation.blogspot.com. Retrieved 22 April 2014. an organisation that trains and develops Christian writing and publishing.[http://www.transculturalwriting.com/Footsteps/?page_id=105 Lillian Tindyebwa], transculturalwriting.com. Retrieved 22 April 2014.

She works as a lecturer in Literature and Linguistics at Kabale University in South-Western Uganda.[http://www.transculturalwriting.com/LUFWP/content/Lillian_Tindyebwa.htm "Lillian Tindyebwa"], transculturalwriting.com. Retrieved 22 April 2014.

She is married to Stephen and they have five children. She lives in Kampala, Uganda.

• {{cite book| title= Recipe for Disaster| publisher= Fountain Publishers| year= June 1994| isbn= 978-9970020331| url-access= registration| url= https://archive.org/details/recipefordisaste00tind}}

• A Time to Remember, Macmillan Publishers, 2008.
• Maggie's Friends, Macmillan Publishers, 2008.
• A Will to Win, Macmillan Publishers, 2008.

• "Endless Distance", in {{cite book|title=Word of Our Own and other stories|editor=Hilda Twongyeirwe|publisher= Femrite Publications|year= 2012|ISBN= 9789970700257}}
• "Beyond the Music and the Dance", in {{cite book|title=I Dare Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival|editor=Hilda Twongyeirwe|publisher= Lawrence Hill Books|location=Chicago|year= 2012|ISBN= 978-1-56976-842-6}}
• "Life Goes On", and "The Second family", in {{cite book|title=Never Too Late|editor= Hilda Twongyeirwe and Aaron Mushengyezi | publisher= Femrite Publications|year= 2011|ISBN= 9789970700233}}
• "The Hard Truth", in {{cite book|title=Tales from my Motherland|editor=Peter Wasamba, Harriet Mugambi and Jane Bwoya|publisher= The Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya|year= 2010|ISBN=9789966228451}}
• "One Day in the Classroom", in {{cite book|title=The Butterfly Dance: words and sounds of colour |editor= Okaka Dokatum and Rose Rwakasisi|publisher= Femrite Publications|year=2009 |ISBN= 978-9970-700-18-9}}
• "Mocked by Fate", in {{cite book|title=Beyond the Dance: Voices of women on female genital mutilation|editor=Violet Barungi and Hilda Twongyeirwe|publisher= Femrite Publications|year= 2009|ISBN= 9789970700196}}
• "Just a Note", in {{cite book|title=Talking Tales |editor=Violet Barungi|publisher= Femrite Publications|year=2009|ISBN= 9789970700219}}
• "Hard Truth", in {{cite book|title=Words from a Granary|editor=Violet Barungi|publisher= Femrite Publications|year=2001|ISBN= 9789970700011}}
• "Looking for My Mother", in {{cite book|title=A Woman's Voice|editor=Mary Karooro Okurut|publisher= Femrite Publications|year=1998|ISBN= 9789970901036}}
• [http://www.transculturalwriting.com/Footsteps/?page_id=105 "Wind under my sails"]

• Peace, in {{cite book|title=Painted Voices: A collage of art and Poetry Volume II|publisher= Femrite Publications|year=2009|ISBN= 9789970700189}}
• [http://www.littworldonline.org/blog/tag/lillian-tindyebwa/ "God is here"]

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• John Musinguzi, [http://observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9160%3Awomen-writers-want-their-own-publishing-house&catid=85%3Aeducation&Itemid=106 "Women writers want their own publishing house"], The Observer (Uganda), 5 July 2010.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234109/http://www.independent.co.ug/society/society/1853-ugandan-authors-coming-up-but-questions-on-quality-remain "Ugandan authors coming up but questions on quality remain"], The Independent (Uganda), 29 September 2009.
• Dennis D. Muhumuza, [https://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/At++sweet+16+++Femrite+waves+Uganda+s+literature+flag+high/-/691232/1408424/-/v98834/-/index.html "At 'sweet 16', Femrite waves Uganda’s literature flag high"], Sunday Monitor, 20 May 2012.
• Sophie Alal, [https://thestraybulletin.wordpress.com/category/history/ "A short history of women’s writing in Uganda"], The Stray Bullet, 27 November 2009.
• [http://www.littworld.org/aroundtheworld.asp?r_id=3&p=41&i=46#28:open:overview "Redeeming the Night: War-traumatized youth find healing at writing camp"]
• [http://www.littworldonline.org/blog/2013/05/purpose-driven-publishing-in-uganda-an-interview-with-author-lillian-tindyebwa/ "Purpose Driven Publishing in Uganda, an Interview with Author Lillian Tindyebwa"]

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