Amélie Nothomb




Amélie Nothomb

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born
August 13, 1967

gender
female

place of birth
Kōbe, Japan


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Amélie Nothmb was born in Kobe, Japan to Belgian diplomats. She lived there until she was five years old, and then subsequently lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, a stint in Coventry and Laos.

She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).

She has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 1999 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française; the Prix René-Fallet; and twice...more




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Stupeur Et Tremblements Stupeur Et Tremblements
by Amélie Nothomb
avg rating 3.76 — 576 ratings — published 1999
24 editions
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Metaphysique Des Tubes Metaphysique Des Tubes
by Amélie Nothomb
avg rating 3.87 — 276 ratings — published 2000
20 editions
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Hygiene De L'Assassin Hygiene De L'Assassin
by Amélie Nothomb
avg rating 3.65 — 230 ratings — published 1992
11 editions
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Cosmetique De L'ennemi Cosmetique De L'ennemi
by Amélie Nothomb
avg rating 3.51 — 152 ratings — published 1997
14 editions
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Mercure Mercure
by Amélie Nothomb
avg rating 3.67 — 143 ratings — published 1998
11 editions
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Antichrista Antichrista
by Amélie Nothomb
avg rating 3.23 — 155 ratings — published 2003
15 editions
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Le Sabotage Amoureux Le Sabotage Amoureux
by Amélie Nothomb
avg rating 3.55 — 137 ratings — published 1993
14 editions
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The Book of Proper Names: A No... The Book of Proper Names: A Novel
by Amélie Nothomb
avg rating 3.76 — 125 ratings — published 2002
17 editions
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Biographie De La Faim Biographie De La Faim
by Amélie Nothomb
avg rating 3.65 — 128 ratings — published 2004
12 editions
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Les Catilinaires Les Catilinaires
by Amélie Nothomb
avg rating 3.42 — 132 ratings — published 1995
9 editions
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"Il y a des beautés qui sautent aux yeux et d'autres qui sont écrites en hyéroglyphes: on met du temps à déchiffrer leur splendeur mais, quand elle est apparue, elle est plus belle que la beauté."
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"God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it."
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"Water beneath me, water above me, water in me--I was water. How appropriate that the one definition of the Japanese character for my name was "rain." I, too, was precious and copious, inoffensive and deadly, silent and raucous, joyous and despicable, live-giving and corrosive, pure and grasping, patient and insidious, musical and off-key--but more than any of that, and beyond all those things, I was invulnerable.
...From the heights and depths of my diluvian life, I knew that I was rain and rain was rapture. Some realised it would be best to accept me, let me overwhelm them, let me be who I was. There was no greater luxury than to fall to earth, in sprinkles or in buckets, lashing faces and drenching countryside, swelling sources and overflowing rivers, spoiling weddings and consecrating burials, the blesssing and curse of the skies.
My rainy childhood thrived in Japan like a fish in water.
Tired of my unending passion for my element, Nishio-san would finally call to me, "Out of the lake! You'll dissolve!"

Too late. I had dissolved long before."
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