Sophie Alal Explained

Birth Name:	Sophie Alal
Birth Place:	Uganda
Occupation:	Lawyer, writer
Nationality:	Ugandan
Genre:	Fiction, poetry

Sophie Alal is a Ugandan writer, lawyer, poet, journalist and cultural critic.^[1] She publishes at Deyu African, a cultural heritage initiative.^[2] She won the 2010 Beverley Nambozo Poetry Award with Making Modern Love.^[3] Her short stories have been published in the Kalahari Review, Lawino Magazine, AfricanColours and START journal.^[4] She has worked as a freelance correspondent for The EastAfrican, African Colours magazine and the Global Press Institute.^[5] She holds a law degree from Makerere University.^[6]

Published works

Short stories

• "Here are the children" inBook: Moonscapes: short stories and poetry. James Woodhouse. Africa Writers Trust. 2017. 978-9970-28-001-8 .
• "Making Modern Love" inBook: A Thousand Voices Rising: An anthology of contemporary African poetry. Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva. BN Poetry Foundation. 2014. 978-9970-9234-0-3.
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• "Debris"

Poetry

• "The rebel fell"
• "Making modern love"

Notes and References

1. https://www.observer.ug/component/content/article?id=15902:pride-of-a-woman "Sophie Alal"
2. https://acme-ug.org/2015/04/28/alternative-media-giving-space-to-diverse-voices/ "Alternative media giving space to diverse voices"
3. http://www.monitor.co.ug/artsculture/Reviews/691232-1047648-13o5p1gz/index.html "BOOKS THEY READ: Sophie Brenda Alal"
4. https://mediadiversified.org/category/sophie-alal/ "Sophie Alal" mediadiversified.org. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
5. http://maishafilmlab.org/maisha-alumni/sophie-alal/ "Sophie Alal"
6. https://africainwords.com/2016/04/04/q-a-its-just-not-enough-to-be-a-lawyer-sophie-alal-on-law-and-literature/ "Q& A: “It’s just not enough to be a lawyer” – Sophie Alal on law and literature " africainwords.com. Retrieved August 31, 2016