The EastAfrican conducted an e-mail interview with the author, with questions ranging from her reaction to the win to how she will spend the prize money. The Man Booker Prize winner gets $69,230, while the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate receives $1.4 million. The Windham Campbell Prize for Literature is one of the world’s richest and most prestigious literary prizes. Makumbi, a novelist and short story writer, won the prize for her debut novel, Kintu, published by Transit Books (US) and Oneworld Publications (UK/Commonwealth) this past January. Ugandan author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi summed up her winning of $165,000 for the 2018 Windham Campbell Literature Prize thus: “This is like having worked without pay for a long time and then someone comes along and says, ‘Will a salary for the past 10 years do?’ I am speechless.”
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