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Photo © Catherine Cabro
Thursday, May 11, 2006 7pm
AFSF Auditorium
In French
Members AFSF: $8
Others: $12
RSVP (415)775-7755 |
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Moderator : Laureline Amanieux( University of Paris X), author of Amélie Nothomb, l’éternelle affamée , a biography of the writer published by Albin Michel (2005)
Amélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer. She was born in Kobe, Japan, before living in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, and Laos. Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year among them: les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur et tremblements (1999) le Robert des noms propres (2002), and Acide sulfurique (2005).
"Her books are fresh, surprising and savagely playful, with a strong charge. Despite these established successes, she still replicates the effect of a bucket of cold water thrown at you on a hot day.We should welcome her books in whatever form they arrive; such elegance and fierceness are rare." - Lucy Dallas, Times Literary Supplement (20/8/2004)
Amelie Nothomb’s novels have been translated into more than 30 languages; the most famous, Fear and Trembling, has been made into a film. Her books are published in France by Albin Michel and in the US by St
Martin's Press. |
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