Dominique Celis
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| Occupation | Writer |
Dominique Celis (born 1978) is a Belgian writer. Her debut novel Ainsi pleurent nos hommes ("So Our Men Cry", 2022) is about the Rwandan genocide.
Dominique Celis was born in 1978 in Burundi to a Belgian father and Rwandan mother. She lived in Rwanda and Zaire before her family settled in Belgium in 1986. She graduated from the University of Liège with a master's degree in philosophy and taught ethics at the high school level. She moved to Kigali in 2013.[1]
In 2019, she was awarded a Francophone Afriques-Haïti residency to work on her debut novel, which was then called Lettres sur un retour au pays maternelle ("Letters on a Return to My Motherland").[2] The epistolary novel is a series of letters from Erika, who fled the genocide and has returned to Rwanda, to her sister Lawurensiya, who stayed in Belgium.[1] The novel was a finalist for the 2022 Prix Rossel and was longlisted for the 2022 Prix Méduse.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b Gravet, Catherine; Faulkner, Morgan (2025-12-03). "L'intime au coeur du politique : le cas de Dominique Celis". Convergences francophones. 9 (1–2): 15–31. doi:10.29173/cf955. ISSN 2291-7012.
- ^ "Dominique Celis ou les mots pour le dire". ALCA Nouvelle-Aquitaine (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-06.
- ^ Instants, Le Carnet et les (2022-10-14). "Les finalistes du Rossel 2022". Le Carnet et les Instants (in French). Retrieved 2026-02-06.
- ^ "Ainsi pleurent nos hommes". 2 Seas Foreign Rights Catalog. Retrieved 2026-02-06.