Louise L. Lambrichs (born 2 May 1952) is a French

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others asp ...

and

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. Lambrichs was born into a family of writers in Boulogne-Billancourt. Her father

Georges Lambrichs Georges Lambrichs (5 July 1917 – 9 February 1992) was a French writer, literary critic and editor. Life Labrichts was born in Brussels. After studying philosophy, he met Jean Paulhan in 1937 of whom he became a "companion of intellectual resi ...

(along with

Jean Paulhan Jean Paulhan (2 December 1884 – 9 October 1968) was a French writer, literary critic and publisher, director of the literary magazine ''Nouvelle Revue Française'' (NRF) from 1925 to 1940 and from 1946 to 1968. He was a member (Seat 6, 1963–68 ...

and

Jérôme Lindon Jerome (c.347–420) was a priest, confessor, theologian and historian from Dalmatia. Jerome may also refer to: People Given name * Jerome (given name), a masculine name of Greek origin, with a list of people so named * Saint Jerome (disambiguat ...

) was considered one of the greatest French-speaking editors of the second half of the 20th century. Her mother Gilberte Lambrichs who translated the works of Fritz Zorn and

Thomas Bernhard Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilizat ...

wrote under the pseudonym Constance Delaunay. Lambrichs, who studied philosophy, has published more than a dozen works of which probably the most famous are "Journal d'Hannah" and "Le Jeu du roman". Along with , she wrote an original scenario for Claude Chabrol's film '' The Flower of Evil'' (2003). Then Aruna Villiers directed the film '' À ton image'' based on her novel (2004). In 2005, she published ''Nous ne verrons jamais Vukovar'' ("We are never going to see Vukovar"), an analysis of the wars in the former Yugoslavia based on a study of a book by

Peter Handke Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored t ...

and her own experiences in the field of

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Bibliography

* 2005: ''Nous ne verrons jamais Vukovar'', novel * 2003: ''Le cas Handke, conversation à bâtons rompus'', novel * 2002: ''Aloïs ou La nuit devant nous'', novel * 2001: ''Naître... et naître encore'', novel * 2001: Chemin faisant'', novel * 1998: ''Les Révoltés de Villefranche mutinerie d'un bataillon de Waffen SS, septembre 1943'', co-authored with Mirko D. Grmek * 1998: ''À ton image'', novel * 1995: ''Le Livre de Pierre, Psychisme et cancer'', essay * 1995: ''Le jeu du roman'', novel * 1993: ''Journal d'Hannah'', novel * 1987: ''Le Cercle des sorcières'', novel * ''Grmek : La vie, les maladies et l'histoire'' (tome 2) * '' Mirko D. Grmek, un humaniste européen engagé'' (tome 1)

External links

Louise L. Lambrichs at BiblioMonde.com
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