Monica Arac de Nyeko (born 1979) is a Ugandan writer of short fiction, poetry, and essays. She was educated at Makerere University and the University of Groningen. In 2007 she won the Caine Prize for the story Jambula Tree. The story concerns two teenage girls falling in love and facing an unforgiving community because of it. One of her other noted stories is Strange Fruit, which contains an allusion to the song of the same name.
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- 1979 (age 31 years)
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