Isabelle Spaak (born 5 October 1960) is a
Belgian
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writer living in
Paris
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[
The daughter of ]Fernand Spaak Fernand Paul Jules Spaak (8 August 1923 – 18 July 1981) was a Belgian lawyer and diplomat.
Life
The son of Paul-Henri Spaak and Marguerite Malevez, he was born in Forest and was educated at Cambridge University and at the Université libre ...
and Anna-Maria Farina, she was born in Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
and grew up there. In July 1981, her mother killed her father and then committed suicide. Spaak moved to France later that year, attending Paris West University Nanterre La Défense
Paris Nanterre University (French: ''Université Paris Nanterre''), formerly Paris-X and commonly referred to as Nanterre, is a public research university based in Nanterre, Paris, France. It is one of the most prestigious French universities, ma ...
. She went on to work as a journalist for '' VSD''; later, she was put in charge of the culture pages of '.
She is perhaps best known for two autobiographical novels ''Ça ne se fait pas'' (2004), which received the Prix Victor-Rossel The Prix Victor-Rossel is a literary award in Belgium that was first awarded in 1938. The award was created by three people associated with the newspaper ''Le Soir'': the owner Marie-Thérèse Rossel, the manager Lucien Fuss and the editor-in-chief, ...
, and ''Pas du tout mon genre'' (2006). 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.[
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Publications
* ''Paris'', 1999
* ''Ça ne se fait pas : roman'', 2004
* ''Pas du tout mon genre : roman'', 2006
* ''Militants'', 2011
* ''Une allure folle : roman'', 2016
* ''Une mère, etc.'', 2019
References
1960 births
Living people
Belgian journalists
Belgian women novelists
Artists from Brussels
Belgian expatriates in France
Writers from Paris
21st-century Belgian novelists
Belgian non-fiction writers
21st-century Belgian women writers
Belgian women journalists
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