Stella Nyanzi
Stella Nyanzi, born in 1974 in Jinja/Uganda, is a poet, activist and academic. She was imprisoned twice in a high-security prison in Uganda for criticizing Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in her texts. She has published several volumes of poetry. In German the volume “Im Mundexil: Gedichte” (translated by Matthias Göritz, Verlag das Wunderhorn) was published in 2025. She was a fellow of the Writers-in-Exile program of PEN Germany in Munich and is currently a visiting fellow of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative for Scholars-At-Risk at the Ruhr University Bochum. She currently lives in Munich with her children.
