![]() ![]() Several of her novels have an autobiographical dimension. After this, she began to regularly write books, releasing more or less one every year. She published her first novel, Hygiene and the Assassin, in 1992. She studied philology at the Université libre de Bruxelles, after which she returned to Japan to work in Tokyo. She is the daughter of a diplomat, and has therefore lived in several different countries, particularly in Asia. According to the book, the title comes from the expectation that people must demonstrate their respect for the Japanese Emperor through fear and trembling.įear and Trembling was released to critical acclaim and won the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française.Īmélie Nothomb is a Belgian writer who was born in Japan in 1967. It is a fictionalised autobiography which tells the story of Nothomb’s experience of work in Japan through the character Amélie.
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