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Scholastique Mukasonga

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Rwanda

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

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Born in Rwanda in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In 1960, her family was displaced into the under-developed Nyamata. In 1973, she was forced to leave the school of social assistance in Butare and flee to Burundi. She settled in France in 1992. The genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda 2 years later. Mukasonga learned that 27 of her family members had been massacred. Twelve years later, Gallimard published her autobiographical account Inyenzi ou les Cafards, which marked Mukasonga's entry into literature. Her first novel, Notre-Dame du Nil, won the Ahamadou Kourouma prize and the Renaudot prize in 2012.

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Average rating: 3.98 · 10,216 ratings · 1,546 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, Melanie L. Mauthner (Translation) 3.77 avg rating — 3,785 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga, Jordan Stump (Translator) 4.42 avg rating — 1,975 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga, Jordan Stump (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 1,981 ratings — published 2008 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga, Mark Polizzotti (Translator), Akrosia Samson (Narrator) 3.78 avg rating — 1,050 ratings — published 2020 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Igifu by Scholastique Mukasonga, Jordan Stump (Translator) 4.36 avg rating — 593 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sister Deborah 3.43 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Un si beau diplôme ! 3.75 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ce que murmurent les collines 3.62 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La vache du roi Musinga et autres nouvelles rwandaises 3.79 avg rating — 72 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Julienne 4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Ils voulaient nous dire à nous les femmes tutsi: 'Ne donnez plus la vie car c'est la mort que vous donnez en mettant en monde. Vous n'êtes plus porteuses de vie, mais porteuses de mort.”
― Scholastique Mukasonga, La femme aux pieds nus

tags: femmes, mort, tutsi, vie

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“So you still want to do what you said?'
'More than ever! Now that I'm a heroine, and you too, they'll say it's another one of our exploits, and believe me, it will be.'
'You know very well it's all based on your lies.'
'It's not lies, it's politics.”
― Scholastique Mukasonga, Our Lady of the Nile

tags: dishonesty, lies, politics, rwandan-genocide

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“No memorial has been built on Rebero. Nothing to commemorate the fallen but boulders and white and rust-red stones. I look for signs from the hill, I dig at the ground. The sun is straight overhead. This is the hour of mirages. I push away the little rocks, I scratch at the ground. I find a shred of tattered cloth half-buried in the dirt. I try to convince myself that it comes from Antoine’s shirt. I hesitate, then leave that false relic where it lies. I pick up a stone with a sharp edge. In remembrance.”
― Scholastique Mukasonga, Cockroaches

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Lili Is Crying by Hélène Bessette

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The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić

1 vote, 8.3%

The Other Girl by Annie Ernaux

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After the Winter by Guadalupe Nettel

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Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga

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