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SUMMARY:The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse in Cambridge with Prof Charles
  Forsdick - Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse\; Charles Forsdick\, Drapers Professor
  of French
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CONTACT:Jay Richardson
DESCRIPTION:On 27 February 2025\, Open Borders Press will publish The Conv
 oy by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse\, translated by Ruth Diver. The author will 
 be in Cambridge to discuss The Convoy with Charles Forsdick\, Drapers Prof
 essor of French.\n\nBeata Umubyeyi Mairesse was fifteen at the height of t
 he genocide inflicted on the Tutsi people in Rwanda. Hundreds of thousands
  of Tutsi were killed in a period of only three months. The lives of Beata
  Umubyeyi Mairesse and her mother were a sleepless nightmare—until a pla
 ce was eventually found for them on a convoy to safety.\n\nMore than a dec
 ade later\, after rebuilding her life in France\, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse 
 was ready to begin the process of reconstructing her incomplete memories o
 f the escape and establishing community with other survivors. She is now a
  poet and a prize-winning novelist\, but not before this has she written a
 bout her own history. Beginning by making contact with the B.B.C. team whi
 ch filmed the convoy\, then by tracking down aid workers\, journalists and
  fellow escapees and scouring archives in a search for photographs of her 
 crossing of the border\, the author pieces together records and personal a
 ccounts to try to comprehend the chaos that overtook Rwanda at the time of
  the genocide.\n\nWinner 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.
LOCATION:Cripps Seminar 5\, Magdalene College
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