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Amelie Nothomb

Amelie Nothomb
Amelie Nothomb Salon du Livre in Paris, March 14, 2009, dressed in black, as usual.
Amelie Nothomb Salon du Livre in Paris, March 14, 2009, dressed in black, as usual.
Activity (s) Writer
Birth 13 August 1967 (1967-08-13) (age 43)
Flag: Japan Kobe
Writing language French
Genre (s) Roman
Honors Grand Prize novel by the French Academy (1999) Prix de Flore (2007)
Grand Prix Jean Giono (2008)

Amelie Nothomb, born 13 August 1967 in Kobe in Japan , is a writer Belgian French. She lives between Paris and Belgium, land of his ancestors.

Summary

Biography

"Coming from a family of minor aristocracy where politics and literature have always gone well together, it reached almost from his first story, Hygiene de l'assassin ( 1992 ), a readership that has never known his ancestors. Its production ranges between text content more openly autobiographical as lovers Sabotage ( 1993 ) and Fear and Trembling ( 1999 ) and more stories like fictional Mercury ( 1998 ) and The Coal ( 1994 ), a play. In this writer, a form of cruelty and humor mixes with a romanticism that delve into the world today. "

- Marc Quaghebeur, Anthology of French literature in Belgium, between real and surreal . His writings have been translated into thirty-seven languages around the world .

Amelie Nothomb stirs controversy among some writers because of his bestsellers. Some describe his work and his eccentricity as selling points before anything else: "It's that miss Nothomb has not only admirers but also some detractors who accuse him this and that, including its celebrity. (...) It has become, by the chances of interviews, a myth " .

Mount Fuji, the symbol of Japan, has a predominant role in Neither Eve nor Adam

Amelie Nothomb tells part of his childhood in his novels Metaphysics of the tubes , Sabotage love and Biography of hunger as well as in Neither Eve nor Adam. Daughter of the diplomat Patrick Nothomb , that childhood is punctuated by constant removal at the whim of paternal affection. Particularly because of his housekeeper-San Japanese Nishio she considered his second mother, she saw his departure from Japan, "the land of beauty", for China, "Country of ugliness," as an exile and saw the other family travel as many successive uprooting. But also as a "cultural nomadism that multiplies his curiosity and strengthens its precocity" . It tells in Biography of hunger how she plunged with his sister Juliet , in books, potomania , alcohol infant and anorexia. Adult, his degree in philology pocket, Amelie Nothomb returned to Japan to work as an interpreter (she speaks Japanese spoken) and thinks there permanently. She enters a large Japanese company and stayed a year. An unfortunate experience that romance in Fear and Trembling to be crowned by the French Academy. Afterwards, she returned to Belgium and sent the manuscript of his novel Hygiene de l'assassin to many publishers. Albin Michel published it in 1992.

In 2004, she was in her 53 th manuscript , "The overwhelming majority . Is also called "body of his novels," said Amelie Nothomb writing since the age of seventeen years .

Between 2000 and 2002 , she wrote seven pieces for the French singer RoBERT. She romance life of the singer in Robert of proper names , appeared in 2002.

In his novel written in 2009, Le Voyage d'Hiver , Amelie Nothomb reunites with his favorite themes: self-deprecating (on the condition of writer), suicide, love, the existence of inconsistency if not attached look at one fact of life (here: love).

In 2010 she published her nineteenth novel: A form of life.

Bibliography

Novels and plays

Short stories

  • Legend can be a little Chinese, "tale, in collective Sand and slate, Long View, 1993
  • "Electra", a new 14-page, in collective Feathers aware, Stock, 1996
  • "The Existence of God", in Revue Gnrale (vol. 3), 1996
  • "Simon Wolff, new 6-page in The New French Review No. 519, April 1996
  • "Genealogy of a Grandee of Spain", a new 11-page review in The New French No. 527, December 1996
  • "The Mystery of excellence," new 39-page booklet The Great Book of the Month, September 1999
  • "Shining like a pot", a collection of three tales illustrated by Kikie Crevecoeur, La Pierre d'Alun, 1999
    • Legend can be a little Chinese, "Tale of 7 pages
    • "The Dutch railway 'tale of 5 pages
    • "From better" tale of 3 pages
  • "Aspirin," new 2-page, in Aspirin group: headaches, Albin Michel, 2001
  • " No Name ", a new 64-page booklet coupled with Elle No. 2900, 30 July 2001
  • " The Entry of Christ into Brussels ", a new 46-page booklet coupled with Elle No. 3053, 05/07/2004
  • " Mushrooms of Paris , in 9 new episodes published in Charlie Hebdo from July 4 to August 29, 2007

Theatre

  • Sabotage in love, Daniel Sorano Theatre, Vincennes , 2003 - 2005 Foschia with Pauline, Jeanne Gougeau, Laurence Vielle
    Adapted & Directed by: Brigitte Bailey, Laurence Vielle
  • Cosmetics of the enemy, Company of Seven Places, Switzerland , 2003 - 2008 With John Durand and Olivier Renault
    Adapted and directed by: Emmanuel and Jean-Daniel Samatan Uldry
  • Fuels, Daniel Sorano Theatre, Vincennes , March-April 2008 Boy with Michel, Julie Turin, Gregory Gerrebo
    Directed by: Stphane Cottin
  • Metaphysics of the tubes , 2007 - 2009 With Cecilia and Claire Schletzer Rieussec
    Directed by: Claire Rieussec
  • Hygiene de l'assassin, Theatre de Namur & the Public Theater, Brussels , September-October 2008 Daniel Hanssens, Nathalie Cornet, Valerie Marchand and Vincent Lecuyer
    Directed by: Pierre Santini
  • Biography of Hunger, Theatre, Place des Martyrs in Brussels , April-May 2009 With Nathalie Cornet, Michel Hinderyckx, Jessica Grass, Stephanie Blanchoud ...
    Adapted and Directed by Christine Delmotte

Film Adaptations

Critical bibliography

  • Aleksandra Desmurs foreword by Amelie Nothomb, Le Roman Hygiene de l'assassin - Work manifestaire Amelie Nothomb, Praelego Editions, Paris, 2009
  • Kobialka Margaux, The Creation of Amelie Nothomb through psychoanalysis, Manuscript , Paris, 2004
  • Lauren Amanieux , Amelie Nothomb eternal hungry, Albin Michel , Paris, 2005, ( ISBN 2226155929 )
  • Lauren Amanieux , Audio Interview with Amelie Nothomb, editions other words , Belgium, 2007, available on the web.
  • Lauren Amanieux , The tale Siamese character and identity in the work of Amlie Nothomb, Albin Michel , Paris, 2009
  • Michel David , Amelie Nothomb, the symptom graphomania, ditions L'Harmattan , coll. "The work and Psyche", Paris, 2006 ( ISBN 2296004806 )
  • Michel Zumkir, Amelie Nothomb, AZ, portrait of a literary monster, The Great Mirror, al. "Life", Brussels, 2007 ( ISBN 978-2-87415-798-1 )
  • Alain Dantinne, Hygiene of the intestine, Labor , Brussels, 2000
  • (In) Susan Bainbrigge, Jeanette Den Toonder, Amelie Nothomb, Authorship, Identity and Narrative Practice Peter Lang, New York, 2003, an act of international symposium.
  • Mark D. Lee, of Amlie Nothomb Identities. Media of the invention to primal fantasies (Amsterdam / New York, Rodopi, 2010) (Monographic Collection Rodopi in Contemporary French Literature, 50).

Awards

References

  1. Marc Quaghebeur, Anthology of French literature in Belgium, between real and surreal, Editions Racine, Bruxelles, 2006, p. 367
  2. Simon Marty, "The last Nothomb, a sadomaso first believed" ", in Marianne, Le Journal de la Culture, 8 to 14 September 2003, p. 76
  3. Oliver Stevens, "The acid of the lady in black", La Libre Match, back cover, from 1 to 7 September 2005, pp. 96-101
  4. Joel Smets, "A myth, in spite of herself," Le Soir Magazine No. 3714, Cover Story, August 27, 2003, pp. 14-17
  5. Marianne Payot, "Bulimia Amlie" Le Vif L'Express Category "Culture", September 3, 2004, p. 84
  6. She says as indeed she began a slow descent find themselves working in such confined to "clean the toilets"
  7. Anne Masset, Amelie Nothomb, "monomaniac of writing, La Libre Belgique, Heading" Home Matters ", August 4, 1994, p. 2
  8. Jennifer Simon, "The autogographie Amelie", La Libre Belgique, Category "Culture", September 26, 2004, p. 49
  9. Interview with Amelie Nothomb on Fluctuat.net.
  10. a , b , c , d and e autobiographical or pseudo-autobiographical because the liberties taken with respect to the real life of the author are not well known
  11. a and b in which the Roman author is a character, unless the role has to do with real life
  12. D'Amelie Nothomb in liette Abcassis: a new literary feminine Albin Michel . Accessed 23/05/2010
  13. Sabotage love . Accessed on 23/09/2009
  14. Cosmetics enemy's Amelie Nothomb . Accessed on 23/09/2009
  15. fuels "Amlie Nothomb on the boards . Accessed on 23/09/2009
  16. Nothomb revisited by Claire Rieussec , Ouest-France. Accessed on 23/09/2009
  17. Catherine Makereel " Hygiene de l'assassin , Le Soir, Brussels. Accessed on 23/09/2009
  18. Michele Wasteland, " Biography of Hunger ", Le Soir, Brussels. Accessed on 23/09/2009
  19. List of winners of Rene Fallet
  20. List of winners of the Literary Vocation

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