Amélie Nothomb was born in 1966 in Belgium from diplomatic parents and grew up in Japan. She studied philology at the Free University of Brussels, and began writing at the age of 17, as she says, completing “three novels a year, of which he publishes only one.” Her first book, “Hygiene and the Assassin,” was published in 1992, and since then, twenty-seven of her novels have been published, many of which have been translated into Greek. In 1999 she won the Grand Prix du Roman of the French Academy for her book ” Fear and Trembling.” In 2008 she was honored with the Grand Prix Jean Giono, while since 2015, she is a member of the Belgium Royal Academy of French language and literature.
Amélie Nothomb was born in 1966 in Belgium from diplomatic parents and grew up in Japan. She studied philology at the Free University of Brussels, and began writing at the age of 17, as she says, completing “three novels a year, of which he publishes only one.” Her first book, “Hygiene and the Assassin,” was published in 1992, and since then, twenty-seven of her novels have been published, many of which have been translated into Greek. In 1999 she won the Grand Prix du Roman of the French Academy for her book ” Fear and Trembling.” In 2008 she was honored with the Grand Prix Jean Giono, while since 2015, she is a member of the Belgium Royal Academy of French language and literature.
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With her incomparable pen, Amélie Nothomb gives Jesus voice and body a few hours before his crucifixion. She urges us to meet a completely human Christ, with flesh and blood, who ascends submissively to the top of nobility. A Christ who is tormented by thirst while at the same time enjoying it, since “to feel thirsty, you must be alive.”
