Scholastique Mukasonga
Biography and Books
Biography
Full Name: Scholastique Mukasonga
Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956. She settled in France in 1992, only two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsis swept through Rwanda. Thirty-seven of Mukasonga’s family members were among the massacred. Mukasonga has won many prizes, among them the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom. Her books include the novel Our Lady of the Nile, which was a Dublin Literary Award finalist and won, among other prizes, the Ahmadou Kourouma and the Renaudot; Cockroaches (chosen by the New York Times as one of the fifty best autobiographical stories of the last fifty years) and lgifu. Her stories are regularly published in the New Yorker.
Books
Sort by:
☆☆☆☆☆ 0.0/5
| Paperback
| In Stock
Our Lady of the Nile is a landmark novel about a country divided and a society hurtling towards horror. In gorgeous and devastating prose, Mukasonga captures the dreams, ambitions and prejudices of young women growing up as their country falls apart.
'There...
UGX50,000
☆☆☆☆☆ 0.0/5
| Paperback
| In Stock
The Barefoot Woman is a remarkable work of art and act of love.
It was while we were weeding the sorghum field that Mama taught me most of her memories of the Rwanda that used to be. Alas! I've forgotten so many of the secrets Stefania told me, the secrets ...
UGX40,000