The Most Famous
WRITERS from Rwanda
This page contains a list of the greatest Rwandan Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 5,755 Writers, 1 of which were born in Rwanda. This makes Rwanda the birth place of the 139th most number of Writers behind Antigua and Barbuda and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Rwandan Writers of all time. This list of famous Rwandan Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Scholastique Mukasonga (1956 - )
With an HPI of 44.32, Scholastique Mukasonga is the most famous Rwandan Writer. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Scholastique Mukasonga (born 1956) is a French-Rwandan author born in the former Gikongoro province of Rwanda. In 2012, She won the prix Renaudot and the prix Ahmadou-Kourouma for her book Our Lady of the Nile. 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 Seligmann Prize against racism and intolerance and in 2015 with the prize Société des gens de lettres. She currently resides in Normandy, France.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as writers born between 1956 and 1956. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living writers include Scholastique Mukasonga. As of April 2022, 1 new writers have been added to Pantheon including Scholastique Mukasonga.
