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Mukasonga, Scholastique

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LC classificationPQ3989.3.M843
Personal name headingMukasonga, Scholastique
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Associated countryRwanda
France
Associated placeCaen (France)
LocatedFrance
Normandy (France)
Birth date1956
Place of birthGikongoro (Rwanda : Province)
Field of activityFiction
Profession or occupationAuthors
Found inInyenzi, ou, Les cafards, 2006: t.p. (Scholastique Mukasonga)
uwa.edu.au, via WWW, October 2, 2012 (Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda, near the river Rukarara).
Our Lady of the Nile, 2014: ECIP t.p. (Scholastique Mukasonga) data view (b. in 1956 in Rwanda; 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; when 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)
Wikipedia, April 27, 2017 (Scholastique Mukasonga (born 1956) is a Rwandan author living in France. She was born in Gikongoro Province in 1956. Mukasonga left Rwanda before the Rwandan genocide, which killed 27 members of her family, her mother being one of them. Beginning in 1992 she worked in Caen, France as a social worker, and she currently lives in Lower Normandy)
Associated languagefre