Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse''' (born 1979, in Butare) is a French-Rwandan writer and a survivor of the Rwandan genocide. She is the author of three books, and several collections of short stories and poetry. Her writing has received a number of literary prizes in France and abroad. Quotes "Writing is my way of resisting forgetting."Writing Against Oblivion: A Conversation with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse" (2022)"Literature creates a space where silence can finally begin to speak."Interview with World Literature Today (2023)."I write from the place where languages meet and where identities are constantly negotiated."Interview with World Literature Today (2023). "Survival is not the end of the story; it is the beginning of another responsibility."Interview with The Markaz Review (2022)."Language can wound, but it can also become a place of repair."Interview with World Literature Today (2023).'' External links Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:French writers Category:Novelists Category:Poets Category:Short story writers Category:Women writers