Scholastic Mukasonga
Scholastique Mukasonga (* 1956 in Rwanda, Southern Province ) is a Rwandan writer .
Life
Mukasonga was born in the then Gikongoro Province in 1956 into a Tutsi family. She experienced the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflict in Rwanda as a child. In 1973 she was driven into exile in Burundi . Much of her family was killed in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda . Today she lives with her family in Normandy .
Her book The Blessed Virgin of the Nile was filmed in 2019 as Notre-Dame du Nil .
Honors
- 2012 Prix Renaudot for the novel Notre-Dame du Nil
- 2016 Shortlist of the International DUBLIN Literary Award with Our Lady of the Nile
Works (selection)
- Novels
- Inyenzi ou les Cafards (Continents Noirs). Gallimard, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-07-077725-9 .
- La femme aux pieds nus (Continents Noirs). Gallimard, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-07-011983-7 .
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Notre-Dame du Nil (Continents Noirs). Gallimard, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-07-013342-0 .
- German: The Holy Virgin of the Nile . Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88423-469-3 (translated by Andreas Jandl).
- Cœur tambour (Blanche Collection). Gallimard, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-07-014981-0 .
- Novellas
- L'Iguifou. Nouvelles rwandaises (Continents Noirs). Gallimard, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-07-012791-7 .
- Ce que murmurent les collines (Continents Noirs). Gallimard, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-07-014538-6 .
literature
- Fabienne-Agnes Baumann: Gender and Conflict in African Literature. Scholastique Mukasonga: “La femme aux pieds nus”, 2008 . University of Konstanz 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contents: L'iguifou. - La gloire de la vache. - La peur. - Le malheur d'être belle. - Le deuil.
- ↑ Contents: La Rivière Rukarara. - Le bois de la croix. - Titicarabi. - La vache du roi Musinga. - Le malheur. - Un pygmée à l'école.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mukasonga, Scholastique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Rwandan writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rwanda |