{"id":607,"date":"2020-09-11T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/?p=607"},"modified":"2020-09-11T10:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T08:33:41","slug":"institute-francais-brave-girls-from-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/institute-francais-brave-girls-from-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute Fran\u00e7ais : Brave Girls From Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can watch my interview by the <strong>Institute Fran\u00e7ais<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/beyondwordslitfest.co.uk\/brave-girls-from-rwanda\/\">the Beyond Words French Literature<\/a> Festival in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I talk about my first novel,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archipelagobooks.org\/book\/our-lady-of-the-nile\/\"><em>Our Lady of the Nile<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;at the link below, along with two readings from the book, in both French and English. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> Set in a small, prestigious Catholic boarding school for the wealthy and well-connected, <em>Our Lady of the Nile <\/em>weaves  together stories of girlhood with the particular history of Rwanda.  <strong>Mukasonga<\/strong> transforms the lyc\u00e9e into a microcosm of the country\u2019s  mounting racial tensions and violence leading up to the <strong>1994 Rwandan  genocide<\/strong>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brave Girls from Rwanda:\u00a0interview with Scholastique Mukasonga\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A78omfkmWEI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can watch my interview by the Institute Fran\u00e7ais at the Beyond Words French Literature Festival in May. 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