A Book of My Own - Scholastique Mukasonga New York: Film-makers' Cinematheque

New York: Film-makers' Cinematheque

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she began making the black and white and color portraits in Tender to create pictures in her own image

and connection even in the shadow of loss

A Book of My Own - Scholastique Mukasonga New York: Film-makers' CinemathequeFor most of her life, Scholastique Mukasonga was not a writer but a UNESCO social worker. She began writing only in 1994 out of what she called an "urgency to remember"her town, her mother, and her thirty seven family members, who were murdered during the genocide of that year. She recorded everything in a little blue notebook which, in 2006, became an autobiography, Cockroaches. Mukasonga has since continued to write with similar intentto "rebuild a