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1. {C}Scholastique Mukasonga Rwanda, 1956 Born in Rwanda in the 1950s, Scholastique lived childhood with violence and discrimination stemming ethnic conflicts in her country. Two years before the genocide in Rwanda, Mukasonga moved to France, she still lives, but it was the massacre that made her a writer. She lost 27 members of her family in the civil war that wiped out hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsi in 1994. His entry into literature was marked by the autobiographical "Inyenzi ou les Cafards", launched in 2006. "I write to safeguard the memory of mine: that is what I draw the courage to survive", said the author in an interview with Folha, last year, during your participation in Flip. Suggested book: Our lady of Nilo (2017), publisher Nós
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