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Jean-Philippe Toussaint

ジャン＝フィリップ・トゥーサン　/　じゃん＝ふぃりっぷ・とぅーさん

Writer from Belgium

November 29, 1957 (age 68)　・　Brussels metropolitan area, Belgium

writer
film director
novelist

My Take

Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a writer I associate with a particular cool, deadpan precision. The Belgian novelist won the Prix Medicis in 2005 and the Prix Decembre in 2009, and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages, but what I notice is the sensibility behind them: spare, ironic, attentive to small gestures and the comedy of inertia. It also makes sense to me that he's a photographer and filmmaker too, and that he's shown his images in both Brussels and Japan. There's a visual, framed quality to his prose, like he's always deciding exactly where to put the edge of the picture and what to leave out.

Overview

Jean-Philippe Toussaint (29 November 1957, Brussels) is a Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Name (Japanese): ジャン＝フィリップ・トゥーサン
Reading: じゃん＝ふぃりっぷ・とぅーさん
Born: November 29, 1957 (age 68)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Sagittarius / Rooster
Origin: Brussels metropolitan area, Belgium
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: writer / film director / novelist / audiobook narrator / photographer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

2005 Prix Médicis
1997 Prix Victor Rossel
2009 Prix Décembre
1995 prix littéraire Canada-Communauté française de Belgique

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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