Doreen Baingana, author of the award-winning "Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe," will present a free public lecture at SUNY College at Old Westbury on Wednesday, October 10, at 6:30 p.m. in the College’s Student Union.
Baingana’s appearance is being held in conjunction with the common reading program of the Colleges First Year Experience for freshman students, which using "Tropical Fish" as its cornerstone this fall. Her visit is being made possible by support from the Keyspan Foundation.
"Our entire campus community is excited to welcome Doreen Baingana," said College President Calvin O. Butts, III. "Through skillful writing and superb story telling, she has made our students reflect on issues of class and religion, and the complex process that takes place as we each seek our own true meaning."
According to its publisher, University of Massachusetts Press: "’Tropical Fish’ is a collection of linked short stories that explore the coming of age of three African sisters. Introspective and personal, the stories reveal the unexpected ambiguities of the young women’s lives. The setting is the lush beauty of Uganda and the background is the aftermath of Idi Amin’s dictatorship. But even in such trying circumstances, the stories show that people everywhere face the same basic human struggle to understand themselves, their world, and their place in it." A Ugandan-born fiction writer and poet who resides in the United States, Baingana was awarded the Commonwealth Prize for First Book for "Tropical Fish" in 2006.
She has also won the Washington Independent Writers Fiction prize, was twice nominated for the Caine Prize in African Writing, has won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction, and received an Artist Grant from the District of Columbia Commission of the Arts and Humanities.
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