![]() ![]() Despite the limited quota which only admitted 10% of Tutsi to secondary schools, she attended first the Lycée Notre-Dame-de-Citeaux in Kigali, then a social worker school in Butare. Her mother Stefania devoted her attention to her children, one way in which Mukasonga moved beyond her initial station. ![]() Her family lived in a refugee camp after this expulsion from their home village, where she survived despite repeated persecutions and massacres. In 1960, her family was deported with many other Tutsi to Nyamata in the inhospitable, scrubland province of Bugesera. In 1959, the first pogroms against the Tutsi shattered the country. Scholastique Mukasonga was born in 1956 in the southwest of Rwanda, by the Rukarara river. In addition to being a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Mukasonga was rewarded in 2014 with the Seligman Prize against racism and intolerance and in 2015 with the prize Société des gens de lettres. In 2012, She won the prix Renaudot and the prix Ahmadou-Kourouma for her book Our Lady of the Nile. Scholastique Mukasonga (born 1956) is a French- Rwandan author born in the former Gikongoro province of Rwanda. ![]()
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