Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is a Franco-Rwandan novelist, winner of the 2020 Five Continents Prize from La Francophonie for her novel “All your children dispersed”. (Replay)
She dreamed of being a journalist and, even younger, a speaker at Radio Rwanda. But even all fired up, the dream had to live a rather long truce, on the side of April 1994. Beata Umubyeyi Mayoress is one of those Rwandans who fled the Tutsi genocide, leaving behind his 15 years a land, a language, ghosts, a shocked heart.
And then the feather took over from grief.
Today, 2020 5 Continents Prize of La Francophonie for his first novel All your children scattered, published by editions Otherwise, Beata collects and weaves a comma between yesterday and tomorrow, between a here and a there. Starting at the foot of jacarandain the midst of frogs singing at Butareit is a novel from which interbreeding springs, thanks or because of the great History and its chaos, but also of the love and its big eyes.
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