Scholastique Mukasonga

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. 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.

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.

 Novels 

 2012: Notre-Dame du Nil, Éditions Gallimard, 
 2012: Prix Ahmadou-Kourouma, Prix Renaudot
 2014: English translation by Melanie Mauthier, Our Lady of the Nile (Archipelago Books), 
 2022: Shortlisted for Republic of Consciousness Prize
 2016: Cœur tambour (novel)
 2020: Kibogo est monté au ciel
 2022: English translation by Mark Polizzotti, Kibogo (Archipelago Books).

 Short stories 

 2014: Ce que murmurent les collines [fr] (stories)

 Memoirs 

 2006: Inyenzi ou les cafards (memoir), Gallimard
 2016: English translation by Jordan Stump, Cockroaches (Archipelago Books), 
 2008: La femme aux pieds nus (memoir) — Dedicated to Mukasonga's mother, Stefania, Gallimard
 2018: English translation by Jordan Stump, The Barefoot Woman (Archipelago Books, December 2018); finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature
 2010: L’Iguifou (memoir), Gallimard
 2020: English translation by Jordan Stump, Igifu (Archipelago Books, September 2020)
 2023: A Book of My Own (ISOLARII, August 2023)

References

Category:1956 births
Category:Living people
Category:Rwandan people
Category:Writers from Normandy
Category:Social care