Mukasonga, Scholastique
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Name (Latin)
Mukasonga, Scholastique
Date of birth
1956-12-20
Associated country
France
Rwanda
Field of activity
Fiction
Occupation
Authors
Associated Language
fre
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Inyenzi, ou, Les cafards, 2006:t.p. (Scholastique Mukasonga)
- Our Lady of the Nile, 2014:ECIP t.p. (Scholastique Mukasonga) data view (b. in 1956 in Rwanda; in 1960, her family was displaced into the under-developed Nyamata; In 1973, she was forced to leave the school of social assistance in Butare and flee to Burundi; she settled in France in 1992; when genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda 2 years later, Mukasonga learned that 27 of her family members had been massacred; twelve years later, Gallimard published her autobiographical account Inyenzi ou les Cafards, which marked Mukasonga's entry into literature; her first novel, Notre-Dame du Nil, won the Ahamadou Kourouma prize and the Renaudot prize in 2012)
- Wikipedia, April 27, 2017(Scholastique Mukasonga (born 1956) is a Rwandan author living in France. She was born in Gikongoro Province in 1956. Mukasonga left Rwanda before the Rwandan genocide, which killed 27 members of her family, her mother being one of them. Beginning in 1992 she worked in Caen, France as a social worker, and she currently lives in Lower Normandy)
- uwa.edu.au, via WWW, October 2, 2012(Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda, near the river Rukarara).
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Wikipedia description:
Scholastique Mukasonga (born 1956) 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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