Scholastique Mukasonga

Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956 and experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. Her first novel, Our Lady of the Nile , won the Ahamadou Kourouma prize and the Renaudot prize in 2012 and was shortlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.

Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956 and experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. Her first novel, Our Lady of the Nile , won the Ahamadou Kourouma prize and the Renaudot prize in 2012 and was shortlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award. See less