Scholastique Mukasonga has become the first African woman to win the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom.
The prize was established in 2008 to recognize “a person or an association, a work or an action which, everywhere in the world – in all fields, law, work, education, research, literature, daily life, activism – defends and advances women’s freedom.”
In a press release Mukasonga said “It’s a pleasant surprise that arrives just as I’m in the process of writing my most feminist novel.”
Mukasonga is the author of three novels, three memoirs, and a collection of short stories. Her works explore themes of homeland, family, exile, and grief. Her novel, Our Lady of the Nile (Notre-Dame du Nil), won the Ahamadou Kourouma Prize and the Renaudot Prize, and was adapted to film in 2020 by Atiq Rahimi.
The Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom award ceremony will take place on May 31, 2021, in Paris.
Congratulations Scholastique Mukasonga!
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