Regina Amollo
{{short description|Ugandan writer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Regina Amollo
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1954}}
| birth_place = Uganda
| occupation = Writer
| notable_works = A Season of Mirth, When Mother Leaves Home, The Pain of Borrowing
}}
Regina Amollo (born {{circa|1954}}) is a Ugandan writer.{{cite news | url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1313094/amollo-quit-nursing-educate-people-writing | title=Amollo quit nursing to educate her people through writing | work=New Vision | date=23 January 2013 | accessdate=15 May 2016 | author=Odeke, Steven}}
Biography
Trained as a nurse, Amollo started writing her first novel, A Season of Mirth, in 1976.{{cite news | url=http://www.observer.ug/component/content/article?id=9152:one-manuscripts-23-year-journey | title=One manuscript’s 23-year journey | work=The Observer | date=5 July 2010 | accessdate=15 May 2016 | author=Nabiruma, Diana}} She was encouraged to complete the manuscript by one of her professors, Austin Ejiet, but it took until 1999 for the book to be published. The book, which explores male chauvinism and women's oppression in Uganda,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rMnkcZsv_eEC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38 | title=Culture and Customs of Uganda | publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group | author=Otiso, Kefa M. | year=2006 | pages=38 | isbn=9780313331480}} is now required reading for Ugandan students.
Amollo retired from nursing in 2009. She has published several other books, including When Mother Leaves Home and The Pain of Borrowing. She wrote a two-volume primer for the Kumam language, Pwonyo Isoma Itabu Me Agege, and published an anthology of stories by women writers entitled Those Days in Iganga.
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Category:Ugandan women writers