Yolande Mukagasana

Yolande Mukagasana (born 6 September 1954) is a Rwandan writer[1] writing in French who is a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

[2] She fled to Belgium during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi; her husband, her children and many of the people she knew were killed.

Together, they produced the travelling exhibition Les Blessures du silence, witness accounts of the genocide.

[2] Her first memoir, La mort ne veut pas de moi, was translated into English as Not My Time to Die by Zoe Norridge in 2019.

In 2002, Mukagasana received the Golden Dove for Peace Prize awarded by Archivio Disarmo.