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).