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Scholastique Mukasonga on US National Book Awards 2019 longlist.

Scholastique Mukasonga
Scholastique Mukasonga

Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel The Barefoot Woman is on the longlist for the US National Book Awards 2019 announced on September 17, 2019. The US National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two-lifetime achievement awards to authors every November. The awards are handed out in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and […]

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Scholastique Mukasonga’s “The barefoot woman” available in Spanish.

Scholastique Mukasonga’s The Barefoot Woman
Scholastique Mukasonga’s The Barefoot Woman

Scholastique Mukasonga’s The Barefoot Woman was translated into Spanish in 2018. Scholastique Mukasonga is a Rwandan author of the novels Notre-Dame du Nil (2012) (English translation Our Lady of the Nile (2014)) and Cœur tambour (2016) as well as the short story collection Ce Que Murmurent Les Collines (2014). She has also written the memoirs […]