Amélie Nothomb

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Amélie Nothomb (2015)
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Amélie Nothomb alias Fabienne Claire Nothomb (born July 9, 1966 in Etterbeek , Brussels or August 13, 1967 in Kobe , Japan ) is a Belgian French-language writer .

Life

Nothomb comes from an upper class, raised to the nobility, Francophone Belgian political family. She spent the first five years of her life in Japan as the daughter of the Belgian diplomat Baron Patrick Nothomb . After further long stays in China , New York , Burma and Laos due to her father's job , she came to Europe for the first time at the age of 17 . She studied Romance Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles . After graduation, she returned to Tokyoback and worked in a large company. The experiences of this time later served as the basis for her novel Mit Staunen und Zittern (1999).

In 1992 Nothomb returned to Belgium and published her first book The Purity of the Murderer . Her successful career as a writer began with this first work, to which she was able to devote herself full-time.

She publishes a novel every year. Of the 17 works published up to 2009, five had an autobiographical character, in which an identity of author, narrator and protagonist seems to exist. But she also attributes autobiographical traits to her first work, in which the girl Léopoldine tries to suppress the first signs of puberty with anorexia . However, the reader may doubt the autobiographical credibility of Nothomb. Her preferred form of writing is dialogue, in which the opposite is to be trumped and humiliated until it crawls on the floor, as the protagonist Prétextat Tach in The Purity of the Murderer . Whether in this dualism the virtuous and the beautiful triumph over the shameful and the ugly, however, is not finally decided, the journalist Nina becomes the murderess Tachs, in reality show the evil, not the virtuous, ends the murderous show.

Awards (selection)

Works

All German-language editions are published by Diogenes Verlag , Zurich.

  • Hygiène de l'assassin . 1992 (German: The purity of the murderer , 1994)
  • Le sabotage amoureux . 1993 (German: Liebessabotage , 1995)
  • Legend un peu chinoise . 1993
  • Les Combustibles (play), 1994
  • Les Catilinaires . 1995 (German: The Professor , 1997)
  • Péplum , 1996
  • Attentat , 1997 (German: Attentat , 2006)
  • Mercure , 1998 (German: Mercury , 2001)
  • Stupeur et tremblements , 1999 (German: With amazement and tremors , 2000)
  • Le Mystère par excellence , 1999
  • Métaphysique des tubes , 2000 (German: Metaphysik der Röhren , 2002)
  • Brillant comme un casserolle , 2000
  • Cosmétique de l'ennemi , 2001 (German: Cosmetics of Evil , 2004)
  • Aspirins , 2001
  • Sans nom , 2001
  • Robert des noms propres , 2002
    • in German: In the name of the lexicon . 2003
  • Antechrista . 2003
  • L'Entrée du Christ in Bruxelles . 2004
  • Biography de la faim . 2004.
    • in German: biography of hunger . 2009
  • Acide sulfurique . 2005
    • in German: Reality Show , 2007
  • Journal d'Hirondelle , 2006
  • Ni d'Ève, ni d'Adam , 2007
  • Le Fait du Prince . 2008
  • Le Voyage d'hiver . 2009
  • Une forme de vie , 2010
  • Door le père . 2011
  • Barbe bleue , 2012
    • in German: Bluebeard . 2014
  • La nostalgia heureuse . 2013
  • Pétronille. Novel. Albin Michel, 2014
  • Le Crime du comte Neville . Albin Michel, 2015 ISBN 978-2-226-31809-1
  • Riquet à la houppe. Albin Michel, 2016 ISBN 978-2-226-32877-9
  • Frappe-toi le coeur. Albin Michel, 2017 ISBN 978-2-226-39916-8
  • Les Prénoms épicènes. Albin Michel, 2018 ISBN 978-2-226-43734-1
  • Soif . Albin Michel, 2019, ISBN 978-2-226-44388-5
  • Les aerostats . Albin Michel, 2020, ISBN 978-2-226-45408-9

literature

  • Colette Sarrey: French women writers of the 80s and 90s and the écriture féminine. in Wolfgang Asholt, Ed .: Interpretations. French Literature, 20th Century: Novel. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86057-909-1 . P. 365ff.
  • Michel Zumkir: Amélie Nothomb de A à Z: portrait d'un monstre littéraire . Le Grand Miroire, Brussels 2007, ISBN 978-2-87415-798-1 .
  • Susanne Rossbach: Verbal power games between cruelty and esprit. The work of the eccentric graphomaniac Amélie Nothomb , in: Roswitha Böhm (Hrsg.): Observatoire de l'extrême contemporain: Studies on contemporary French-language literature . Narr, Tübingen 2009, pp. 295-305.

Web links

Commons : Amélie Nothomb  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Etat présent de la noblesse belge , 2010
  2. ↑ According to norm data, IMDb and website of the author
  3. ^ A b Susanne Rossbach: Verbale Machtspiele, 2009, pp. 295–305
  4. ↑ (227641) Nothomb in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
  5. ^ Franck Hermann: Amélie Nothomb, appelez-la Madame la Baronne. (No longer available online.) Radio Monaco, July 19, 2015, archived from the original on December 2, 2016 ; accessed on December 1, 2016 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radio-monaco.com
personal data
SURNAME Nothomb, Amélie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nothomb, Fabienne Claire (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian French-speaking writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1966 or August 13, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Etterbeek , Brussels , Belgium or Kobe , Japan