- Amélie Nothomb
Infobox Writer
name = Amélie Nothomb
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birthdate = birth date and age|1967|8|13
birthplace =Kobe ,Japan
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occupation =writer
nationality = Belgian
notableworks = Stupeur et tremblementsAmélie Nothomb (born
August 13 ,1967 ) is a Belgianwriter who writes in French.Biography
She was born in
Kobe ,Japan to Belgian diplomats. She lived there until she was five years old, and then subsequently lived inChina ,New York ,Bangladesh ,Burma , a stint in Coventry andLaos .She is from a distinguished
Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece ofCharles-Ferdinand Nothomb , a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her firstnovel , "Hygiène de l'assassin," was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. "Les Catilinaires" (1995), "Fear and Trembling" (1999) and "Métaphysique des tubes" (published in English as "The Character of Rain") (2000).She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 1999
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française ; thePrix René-Fallet ; and twice thePrix Alain-Fournier .While in Japan, she attended a local school and learned Japanese. When she was five the family moved to
China . "« Quitter le Japon fut pour moi un arrachement »" (“Leaving Japan was a wrenching separation for me”) she writes in "Fear and Trembling". Nothomb moved often, and did not live inEurope until she was 17, when she moved toBrussels . There, she reportedly felt as much a stranger as everywhere else. She studiedphilology at theUniversité Libre de Bruxelles . After some family tensions, she returned to Japan to work in a big Japanese company inTokyo . Her experience of this time is told in "Fear and Trembling". She has written a romanticizedbiography ("The Book of Proper Names") for the French female singerRoBERT in 2002 and during the period 2000-2002 she wrote the lyrics for nine tracks of the same artist. Many ideas inserted in her books come from the conversations she had with an Italian man, from late eighties and during the nineties. She used the FrenchMinitel , while he used the Italian Videotel system, connected with the French one. They never met personally.Bibliography
Unless otherwise stated, all works were originally published in French by
Éditions Albin Michel .External links
* [http://book.literaryawards.info/en/amelie_nothomb.html Amélie Nothomb commented bibliography]
* [http://www.albin-michel.fr/pages/news/recherche/resultat_fiche.php?code_article=88940&page=auteur Official site] at Éditions Albin Michel
* [http://www.antechrista.info/ Antéchrista] , unofficial site
* [http://www.biblioweb.org/-NOTHOMB-Amelie Amélie Nothomb] on Biblioweb
* [http://www.lire.fr/critique.asp/idC=49029/idR=218/idG=3 Criticisms of "Human Rites"] on Lire.fr
* [http://amelienothomb.cultureforum.net/ AMELIE NOTHOMB, Un plume, Un univers...] (=Amélie Nothomb, A style of writing, A world...) : a French forum, very complete, and well-documented about the author, her work, her inspiring influences, current events, etc.
* [http://membres.lycos.fr/fenrir/nothomb.htm Fan site]
* [http://web.tiscali.it/vcoletti/diario_digitale/hygiene.html Reader's comment on l'Hygiène de l'Assassin]
* [http://web.tiscali.it/vcoletti/diario_digitale/tubes.html Reader's comment on Métaphysique des Tubes]
* [http://web.tiscali.it/vcoletti/diario_digitale/combustibles.html Reader's comment on Les Combustibles]References
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