Scholastique Mukasonga Quotes

born 1956

Scholastique Mukasonga (born 1956) is a French-Rwandan author, widely regarded as Rwanda's most celebrated writer. She writes in French and is best known for her novel Our Lady of the Nile (2012), which won the Prix Renaudot and the Prix Ahmadou-Kourouma, and for memoirs such as Cockroaches and The Barefoot Woman about the persecution of Rwanda's Tutsi and the loss of her family in the 1994 genocide.

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"As a child, I didn't have many chances to write."

"There are few Rwandan writers, and among them, even fewer women."

Mama, I wasn’t there to cover your body and all I have left is words… over and over, my sentences weave a shroud for your missing body.

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