Amélie Nothomb

Pen name of Fabienne Claire Nothomb

(Etterbeekb, Brussels-Capital: 9 July 1966)

French-speaking Belgian novelist.

• René-Fallet Prize and Alain-Fournier Prize in 1993 for Hygiene of the assassin.
• Prix littéraire de la Vocation and Prix Jacques-Chardonne, for The Sabotage in love.
• Jean Giono Jury Prize in 1995 and Roland de Jouvenel Prize of the French Academy in 1996, for The Catilinarians.
• Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1999 for Stupor and Tremor.
• Prix de Flore in 2007, for Neither Eve nor Adam.
• Grand prix Jean-Giono in 2008, crowning his body of work.