WRITER

Scholastique Mukasonga

1956 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Scholastique Mukasonga has received more than 55,668 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Scholastique Mukasonga is the 5,032nd most popular writer (up from 5,168th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Rwanda and the most popular Rwandan Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 56k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Our lady of the Nile
Girls, Fiction, Education
For her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 with Gallimard in French - Mukasonga immerses us in a school for young girls, called "Notre-Dame du Nil." The girls are sent to this high school perched on the ridge of the Nile in order to become the feminine elite of the country and to escape the dangers of the outside world. The book is a prelude to the Rwandan genocide and unfolds behind the closed doors of the school, in the interminable rainy season. Friendships, desires, hatred, political fights, incitation to racial violence, persecutions ... The school soon becomes a fascinating existential microcosm of the true 1970s Rwanda
2014
Sister Deborah
2022
La femme aux pieds nus
History, Biography, Politics and government
2008
Inyenzi, ou, Les cafards
Genocide, History, Ethnic relations
2006
Kibogo
Storytellers, Fiction, Culture conflict
2022
The Barefoot Woman
Genocide, Tutsi (african people), Hutu (african people)
2018

Page views of Scholastique Mukasongas by language

Over the past year Scholastique Mukasonga has had the most page views in the with 11,879 views, followed by English (9,269), and Portuguese (3,422). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (214.90%), Spanish (131.80%), and Galician (87.61%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Scholastique Mukasonga ranks 5,032 out of 7,302. Before her are John Gower, Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Jacques Roubaud, Ioannis Chrysafis, René Bazin, and Natália Correia. After her are William Gibson, Raymond Schwartz, Andrejs Upīts, Vittoria Aganoor, Agapius of Hierapolis, and Ahlam Mosteghanemi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga ranks 315. Before her are Oscar Garré, Hal Finney, Rüdiger Abramczik, Bruno Giordano, Koffi Olomide, and Nobuko Kondo. After her are François Hesnault, Tim McInnerny, Sean Kelly, László Kiss, Jeremy Wade, and Lev Avnerovich Leviev.

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In Rwanda

Among people born in Rwanda, Scholastique Mukasonga ranks 13 out of 28. Before her are Pasteur Bizimungu (1950), Kigeli V of Rwanda (1936), Paul Rusesabagina (1954), Faustin Twagiramungu (1945), Mutara III Rudahigwa (1911), and Dominique Mbonyumutwa (1921). After her are Sylvie Kinigi (1952), Louise Mushikiwabo (1961), Jean Kambanda (1955), Théoneste Bagosora (1941), Augustin Bizimungu (1952), and Antoine Kambanda (1958).

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Among WRITERS In Rwanda

Among writers born in Rwanda, Scholastique Mukasonga ranks 1. 

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