Scholastique Mukasonga

"I’ve tried to catch up, often on the Internet, which offers many opportunities if you have the time and patience."

"Becoming a social worker was without a doubt the only choice of my life. I believed that it would allow me to bring knowledge to those who had been excluded in the villages, to be their spokesperson w…"

"Mama, I wasn’t there to cover your body and all I have left is words… over and over, my sentences weave a shroud for your missing body."

"I’m probably an atypical writer. I didn’t have time to go looking for a model. I had an urgent duty of remembrance to perform, because I was living with the threat of losing that memory."

"My father, who did not know French, demanded that his children speak ‘a beautiful Kinyarwanda’. No doubt I inherited my care for language from him."

"When I started writing, in a little blue notebook that I always kept with me, I had no intention of publishing. I was saving memory."

"The beauty of Rwanda’s landscape, which invites viewers to discover the country from a different perspective than that of the genocide."

"Writing, to me, also means lending my pen to those with no access to literature."