Scholastique mukasonga biography definition

Scholastique Mukasonga (born 1956) is a French-Rwandan author. She was born in the former Gikongoro province of Rwanda. She is a Tutsi and was deported to a refugee camp when she was 4 years old.

In 1973 she escaped to Burundi.

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She came to France in 1992 and was a social worker for the students of the University of Caen. In 1994, 37 members of her family were killed during the Rwandan genocide.^[1]

In 2012, She won the prix Renaudot and the prix Ahmadou-Kourouma for her book Our Lady of the Nile. She was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

In 2014 she won the Seligmann Prize against racism and intolerance and in 2015 the prize Société des gens de lettres. She lives in Normandy, France.^[2]

Novels

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• 2012: Notre-Dame du Nil, Éditions Gallimard, ISBN 978-2286096137
  • 2012: Prix Ahmadou-Kourouma, Prix Renaudot
  • 2014: English translation by Melanie