Isabelle Spaak

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Isabelle Spaak (born 5 October 1960) is a Belgian writer living in Paris. [1] [2]

The daughter of Fernand Spaak and Anna-Maria Farina, she was born in Brussels and grew up there. In July 1981, her mother killed her father and then committed suicide. [3] [4] Spaak moved to France later that year, attending Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. [5] She went on to work as a journalist for VSD ; [6] later, she was put in charge of the culture pages of Le Parisien Magazine  [ fr ]. [2]

She is perhaps best known for two autobiographical novels Ça ne se fait pas (2004), which received the Prix Victor-Rossel, [7] and Pas du tout mon genre (2006). [8] In 2011, she published Militants, a non-fiction work on the French Socialist party. Spaak published a third novel Une allure folle, based on the lives of her mother and grandmother, in 2016. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Isabelle Spaak, Prix Victor Rossel 2004". Le Soir (in French). December 2, 2004. p. 24.
  2. 1 2 "Isabelle Spaak". C’est du Belge (in French). RTBF.
  3. ↑ "Wife shot Spaak then killed herself". The Glasgow Herald. July 21, 1981. p. 5.
  4. ↑ "Les cinq finalistes du prix Rossel et ceux du Rossel des jeunes". Le Soir (in French). November 19, 2004. p. 24.
  5. 1 2 "Isabelle Spaak, la mauvaise réputation". JDD (in French). February 7, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Isabelle Spaak est une grande sauvage". Le Soir (in French). December 18, 2004. p. 33.
  7. ↑ "Ca ne se fait pas" (in French). Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco.
  8. ↑ "Adultère, mode d'emploi". Le Carnet et les Instants (in French). Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.


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