Our Lady of the Nile by Rwandan author Scholastique Mukasonga, which is published by Daunt Books and was translated by UEA alumna Melanie Mauthner, has been shortlisted for the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses. Melanie graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2007. Our Lady of the Nile was originally published by Gallimard in France in 2012, and Melanie’s translation was first published by Archipelago Books of New York in 2016, going on to be shortlisted for that year’s International Dublin Literary Award. The publishers of each of the shortlisted titles for the Republic of Consciousness Prize will receive £1,500.
Melanie Mauthner translation shortlisted for Republic of Consciousness Prize
