Nadine Monfils | |
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Born | Etterbeek, Belgium | 12 February 1953
Nationality | Belgian |
Occupation | Writer, film director, producer |
Nadine Monfils (born 12 February 1953) is a Belgian writer and film director and producer. [1]
She was born in Etterbeek. [1] She has contributed to the magazines Père Ubu , Tel Quel and Focus. Monfils published her first collection of stories Laura Colombe, Contes pour petites filles perverse in 1981. [2] She has written a series of detective novels centred on the character Inspector Léon, a policeman who knits; Léon also appears [1] in her 2004 film Madame Édouard . [3]
She has taught screenwriting at the Parallax school for comedians [1] and the Université Européenne d’Ecriture in Brussels and also in a number of prisons in France. Monflils lives in Montmartre. [2]
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