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Scholastique Mukasonga
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1956
Scholastique Mukasonga is a French-Rwandan author born in the former Gikongoro province of Rwanda. In 2012, she won the prix Renaudot and the prix Ahmadou-Kourouma for her book Our Lady of the Nile. In addition to being a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Mukasonga was rewarded in 2014 with the Seligmann Prize against racism and intolerance and in 2015 with the prize Société des gens de lettres. She currently resides in Normandy, France. In 2021 she won Simone de Beauvoir Prize.
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About Scholastique Mukasonga
Birth
1956
First book
2012
Years writing
14
Scholastique Mukasonga is a French-Rwandan author born in the former Gikongoro province of Rwanda. In 2012, she won the prix Renaudot and the prix Ahmadou-Kourouma for her book Our Lady of the Nile. In addition to being a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Mukasonga was rewarded in 2014 with the Seligmann Prize against racism and intolerance and in 2015 with the prize Société des gens de lettres. She currently resides in Normandy, France. In 2021 she won Simone de Beauvoir Prize.
Scholastique Mukasonga is a prominent Franco-Rwandan writer born in the Gikongoro province.
Her literary work deeply explores the history, politics, and identity of Rwanda.
She is the author of fifteen works that move between fiction and biography with great sensitivity.
Her book 'The Barefoot Woman' is one of her most acclaimed and recognized works.
Through titles like 'Our Lady of the Nile', the author has successfully projected the Rwandan reality to the world.
