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Claudine Muno (born 2 July 1979, in
Luxembourg City
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) is a
Luxembourg
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ian author, singer, musician, music teacher, and journalist.
Early life and education
Claudine Muno spent her childhood in southern Luxembourg town of
Pétange
Pétange (; lb, Péiteng, ; german: Petingen) is a Communes of Luxembourg, commune and town in south-western Luxembourg. It is part of the Esch-sur-Alzette (canton), canton of Esch-sur-Alzette. Pétange lies on the borders with both Belgium and F ...
and finished secondary school with a diploma in modern languages, literature, and Latin. She received an undergraduate degree in History at the
University of Strasbourg
The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers.
The French university traces its history to the ea ...
, France, where she wrote a dissertation on Luxembourgish film: ''Peur de l'oubli - Peur de l'autre. Les films et documentaires luxembourgeois ayant pour sujet la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale'' (French: Fear of forgetting, fear of the Other. Luxembourgish films and documentaries covering the Second World War).
Career
After graduating, she became the full-time cultural editor of the Luxembourgish weekly left/green-wing magazine woxx. As of 2007, she has been teaching music in the ''Neie Lycée'', a pilot secondary school in Luxembourg City.
Author
In 1996, Muno's first publication was a triple surprise for the Luxembourgish book market: the author was not only female (which was rare until then), she was also young (16 years old), and she wrote in English, a language rarely used in
Luxembourg literature. In the following years, Muno has published a novel in French, one in German, and three in Luxembourgish. She has also co-authored two children picture storybooks with Pascale Junker who did the illustrations, and she has written two plays in Luxembourgish: ''Speck'' and ''Krakullen''. Book critics have compared her writing style to the Belgian writer
Amélie Nothomb
Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb (), better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb (; born 13 August 1967),''État présent de la noblesse belge'', éditions of 1979, 1995 and 2010. Her birth is announced in n° 87, aout 1967, p. 340 of the ''Bull ...
.
Musician
Although Muno's first CD was first published by her book publisher, she is nationally and internationally known as Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots, who have already produced two albums. Much to her dismay, her singing style and voice has sometimes been compared to
Jewel and
Alanis Morissette.
Awards
* Prix littéraire national 2000 (National Literary Prize) for her short-story ''Crickets''
*
Servais Prize
The Servais Prize for Literature (french: Prix Servais pour la littérature) is a Luxembourgish literary award, awarded since 1992 by the Servais Foundation. It is judged by a jury, and can be bestowed upon any writer from Luxembourg
Luxem ...
(2004) for her novel ''Frigo''
Bibliography
* Muno, Claudine: ''The Moon of the Big Winds''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1996.
* Muno, Claudine: ''Träume, aus denen man zu spät aufwacht''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1997.
* Junker, Pascale & Muno, Claudine: ''Dem Zoe seng Geschichten''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1998.
* Junker, Pascale & Muno, Claudine: ''D'Zoe, Draachen a Siweschléifer. Dem Zoe seng Geschichten 2''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1999.
* Muno, Claudine: ''21''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1999.
* Muno, Claudine: ''De Fleeschkinnek''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 2002.
* Muno, Claudine: ''Frigo''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay. 2003.
* Muno, Claudine: ''Koma''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 2005.
* Muno, Claudine: ''d'welt geet ënner, nils poulet''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 2006.
Discography
* Muno, Claudine: ''Fish out of Water''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1998.
* Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: ''faith + love + death''. Maskénada (Luxembourg), 2004.
* Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: ''Monsters''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1998.
* Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: ''Petites chansons méchantes''
Green l.f.ant Records Brussels, 2007.
* Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: ''Noctambul''
Green l.f.ant Records Brussels, 2010.
* Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: ''Carmagnoles'' (Compilation). Volvox Music, Moret-sur-Loing (France), 2011.
External links
Claudine Muno (CNL)(in French)
The Luna Boots Official Facebook* entry o
Claudine Munoin the Centre National de littérature, Luxembourg (in French)
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1979 births
Living people
Luxembourgian novelists
Luxembourgian educators
Women novelists
21st-century Luxembourgian women singers
People from Luxembourg City