Born 1956 · France, Rwanda
National Book Award 2022 · Finalist
Kibogo est monté au ciel
Scholastique Mukasonga · 64 when first published
Novel · 152 pages · Historical, Satire
Translated by Mark Polizzotti
AI-generated summary:In colonial Rwanda, as mass baptisms follow the deposing of a king who refused the faith, villagers weigh the missionaries' Jesus against their own legend of a royal son who rose to heaven and brought back the rain.
Warwick Prize 2021 · Shortlist
Notre-Dame du Nil
Scholastique Mukasonga · 56 when first published
Novel · 240 pages · Politics, Coming of age
Translated by Melanie Mauthner
AI-generated summary:At a girls' secondary school high on the Congo-Nile ridge in Rwanda, where families send their daughters to stay chaste until arranged marriages and a quota limits Tutsi pupils, tensions build among the students.
National Book Award 2019 · Finalist
La femme aux pieds nus
Scholastique Mukasonga · 52 when first published
Nonfiction · 152 pages · Family, War
Translated by Jordan Stump
AI-generated summary:A Rwandan writer remembers her mother, Stefania, who tried to shield her children from the everyday terror that Tutsi families lived under in the years before the 1994 genocide.