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Amelie Nothomb Biography

Amélie Nothomb (French: [a.me.li nɔ.tɔ̃b]), pen name of Fabienne-Claire Nothomb born on 9 July 1966 in Etterbeek, Belgium, is a Belgian Francophone novelist. Part of her childhood was spent in Asia. A prolific author, since the publication of her first novel Hygiene and the Assassin in 1992, at the age of twenty six, she publishes a book a year. Her novels are among the top literary sales and have been translated into several languages, which earned her the title of Commander of the Order of the Crown and the title of Baroness bestowed upon her by King Philippe of Belgium. Her novel Fear and Trembling won the Grand Prize of the novel from the French Academy in 1999, and in 2015, she was elected member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature in Belgium.

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Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.

Giving, Love, Together, Year, Years

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

Ambitious, Amelie, Become, Child, Children, Dreamt

Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou

Amour, Episodes, Été, Mélangés, Ont, Par

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

Hat, Hats, Paris, Unfortunately, Want

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

Amelie, Needs, Success, Vanity

I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.

Amelie, Hungry, Needs, Time, Write, Writing

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image.

Felt, Photograph, Purpose, Single

Definitely. More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from. There is line in a song by Georges Brassens [French singer-songwriter]: 'Les imbciles heureux qui sont ns quelquepart. ' I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

Country, Imbciles, Quelquepart, Song, Stupid, Way

It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it’s because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.

Evil, Found, Gold, Passively, Real, True

If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

Beauty, Delight, Fear, Let, Losing, Mirrors

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

Amelie, Thing, View, Views, Writing

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

Away, Firsts, Instinct, Movement, Work

Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.

Boys, Conquered, Incandescent, Japanese, Memories, Writing

I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.

Amelie, Eat, Evening, Everything, Normally, Way

God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

Appreciate, Chocolate, Encounters, God, Palate

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

Amelie, Come, Fine, Understand, Where You Come

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

Attention, Making, Men, Sound, Stall, Subject

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.

Book, Fallen, Thinking, Write, Writers, Writing

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

Amelie, God, Nobel, President, Thought, Winner