Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was fifteen at the height of the genocide inflicted on the Tutsi people in Rwanda. Beata and her mother escaped in 1994. Her account of this sleepless nightmare, and the chaos of the Rwanda they managed to flee from – The Convoy – was the winner of the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro, the Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté (special jury prize), the Prix France Télévisions and the Prix du Roman Métis des Lecteurs.
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
