Scholastique Mukasonga

Scholastique Mukasonga is a French-Rwandan author born in 1956 in the former Gikongoro province of Rwanda. Her novel Our Lady of the Nile won the prix Renaudot and the prix Ahmadou-Kourouma in 2012, and her other books include Cockroaches, Kibogo, and The Barefoot Woman. In 2014 she received the Seligmann Prize against racism and intolerance, and in 2021 the Simone de Beauvoir Prize. She lives in Normandy, France.