Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Butare in Rwanda in 1979. She was fifteen when she survived the genocide against the Tutsi. She settled in France and has become a writer. Her first novel All Your Children, Scattered (awarded the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie) and Consolée, her second (winner of the Prix Kourouma), were applauded both by critics and by booksellers.

Umubyeyi Mairesse is the author of The Convoy.