LA BOUCHE DES CARPES

In a café, in the rain, at home or in the woods, Michel Robert interviewed many times famous Belgian author Amélie Nothomb. From these conversations, either wise, funny, crazy or intimate, arise their friendship.

Amélie Nothomb confesses as she never did before. She talks about her private life such as literary creation, Europe, China, Japan, her meaning of friendship or love, her taste for loneliness and “intellectual orgies”
This is an exceptional testimony, offering a whole new portrait of an important and disconcerting author.

Amélie Nothomb was born in Japan of Belgian parents in 1967. She lives in Paris. Since her debut on the French literary scene a little more than a decade ago, Amélie Nothomb has published a novel a year, every year. Her edgy fiction, unconventional thinking, and public persona have combined to transform her into a worldwide literary sensation. She has been awarded numerous prizes including the French Academy's 1999 Grand Prix for the Novel, the René-Fallet prize, the Alain-Fournier prize, and the Grand Prix Giono in 2008. Amélie's books have been translated into over fifteen different languages, including English (Faber&Faber,
Europa Editions), German (Diogenes Verlag), Italian (Voland Edizioni), Spanish (Anagrama Edicíon), Italian (Voland Edizioni)

A Belgian writer and artist, Michel Robert met Amélie Nothomb many times for this book. He is also the writer of a book of interviews with Maurice Béjart.