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Scholastique Mukasonga’s books in English translation include Cockroaches, Our Lady of the Nile, The Barefoot Woman, Igifu, Kibogo, and Sister Deborah, all published by Archipelago Books. She received the Prix Renaudot for Our Lady of the Nile, and The New York Times named Cockroaches one of the fifty best memoirs of the past fifty years. Kibogo and The Barefoot Woman were finalists for the National Book Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the NBCC/Gregg Barrios Prize. Kibogo won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and a PEN Translates Award. Mukasonga’s collection of stories Murmurs from the Hills will be published by Archipelago in 2026. (updated 10/2025)

Mark Polizzotti is the author of thirteen books and has translated more than sixty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud, Scholastique Mukasonga, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, and André Breton. His translations have won or been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, the National Book Award, and the International Booker Prize, among other honors. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. (updated 10/2025)