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Scholastique Mukasonga

Scholastique Mukasonga (born 1956) is a Rwandan author living in France.[1]

She was born in Gikongoro Province in 1956.[2] Mukasonga left Rwanda before the Rwandan genocide, which killed 27 members of her family,[3] her mother being one of them.[2] Beginning in 1992 she worked in Caen, France as a social worker,[4] and she currently lives in Lower Normandy.[5]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Mukasonga, Scholastique (2012). Notre-Dame du Nil. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |authormask= (help)
  • 2016: Cœur tambour (novel)

Short fiction

Collections

Memoirs

  • 2006: Inyenzi ou les cafards (memoir)[2]
  • 2008: La femme aux pieds nus (memoir) - Dedicated to Mukasonga's mother[2]
    • 2018 English translation by Jordan Stump, The Barefoot Woman (Archipelago Books, forthcoming December 2018)[6]
  • 2010: L’Iguifou (memoir)[2]

Critical studies and reviews of Mukasonga's work

  • Lucas, Julian (22 February 2018). "Fatal beauty". The New York Review of Books. 65 (3): 27–29. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help) Review of Cockroaches and Our Lady of the Nile.

References

  1. ^ Garcin, Jérôme. "Scholastique Mukasonga, la pharaonne noire du Calvados" (Archive). L'Obs. Retrieved on 29 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Fuse Book Review: “Our Lady of the Nile” — Prefiguring Rwandan Genocide" (Archive). Arts Fuse. 26 August 2014. Retrieved on 29 May 2015.
  3. ^ Popkin, Nathaniel. "OUR LADY OF THE NILE" (Archive). Cleaver Magazine. Retrieved on 29 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Scholastique Mukasonga : « Retrouver mon identité »." Le Monde. 2 April 2014. Updated 16 April 2015. Retrieved on 6 June 2015. "[...]Scholastique Mukasonga, assistante sociale à Caen depuis 1992,[...]"
  5. ^ a b "Scholastique MUKASONGA Notre Dame du Nil / Our Lady of the Nile." Institut Français, Denmark. November 2012. Retrieved on 28 May 2015.
  6. ^ https://archipelagobooks.org/book/the-barefoot-woman/

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