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Rwandan writer living in Normandie
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Place of birth
Rwanda
Age
69 years
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Biography
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.
Works
- 2006: Inyenzi ou les cafards (autobiographical book)
- 2008: La femme aux pieds nus (autobiographical book) - Dedicated to Mukasonga's mother
- 2010: L’Iguifou (autobiographical book)
- 2012: Our Lady of the Nile (novel)
- 2012 Ahmadou Kourouma Prize, Prix Renaudot
- 2014: Ce que murmurent les collines - A collection of stories
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