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Murambi, le livre des ossements
Neustadt International · 2022 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neustadt International Prize for Literature | 2022 | Winner |
About This Book
A novel about the 1994 Rwandan genocide written after the author traveled to Rwanda as part of the Rwanda Writing Project, focusing on the massacre at the Murambi Technical School where 45,000 people were killed.
About the Author
Boubacar Boris Diop is a Senegalese novelist, journalist, and playwright born in 1946 in Dakar. He is one of the most important Francophone African writers of his generation and a tireless cultural advocate for African languages, particularly Wolof. He has made the politically significant decision to write fiction in Wolof as well as French. Read more →
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