Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956. She settled in France in 1992, two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi. Her books include:
Our Lady of the Nile,
Cockroaches,
Igifu, and National Book Award-nominated
The Barefoot Woman. In 2021, she won the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom.
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