Amélie Nothomb

Amélie Nothomb (born August 13, 1967) is a Belgian writer. She was born in Kobe, Japan to Belgian parents, before living in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, and Laos. Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin was published in 1992. Since then, she published a approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Fear and Trembling (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).

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August 13 - 1967 - Belgian - Writer - Kobe - Japan - China - New York - Bangladesh - Burma - Laos - Novel - 1992 - 1995 - Fear and Trembling - 1999 - 2000

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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 detachment for me") she writes in Fear and Trembling. Nothomb moved very often, before discovering Europe, more precisely, Bruxelles, where she reportedly felt as much a stranger as everywhere else. She studied philology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Then, after facing troubles in her family, she returned to Tokyo to work in a big Japanese company. Her experience of this time is told in Fear and Trembling. She now lives and writes in Bruxelles. She says she writes three novels a year, publishing only one.

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Japanese - Europe - Bruxelles - Philology - Université Libre de Bruxelles - Tokyo

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