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.
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Mama, I wasn’t there to cover your body and all I have left is words… over and over, my sentences weave a shroud for your missing body.
Scholastique Mukasonga said, At the start (The Guardian, Sun 3 Apr 2022 )
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Charlotte CasiraghiAlso in Our Lady of the Nile (2020)
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Pascal GreggoryAlso in Our Lady of the Nile (2020)
Ayaan Hirsi AliAlso won Simone de Beauvoir Prize
Louis AragonAlso won Prix Renaudot
Bernard-Henri LévyAlso won Francine and Antoine Bernheim Award for Arts, Literature and ScienceAbout this person
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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