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Jean-Philippe Toussaint
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Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian writer, film director, novelist, and photographer born in 1957. He is educated at Sciences Po and resides in Brussels, where he also conducts his work. His professional activities span photography, film direction, and prose, with a career beginning in 1980 and concluding in 2014. He writes in French, which is also his native language.
Toussaint has received the Prix Médicis and the Prix Décembre for his work. He is a member of the Academie Royale de Langue et de littérature Françaises. His contributions to the field include directing, as noted in film industry records.
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Film & TV
Known for
- Berlin, 10:46 — Schachgegner1994
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1957-11-29 ) 29 November 1957 (age 68) , Brussels , Belgium
- Occupation
- Novelist Screenwriter Director
- Nationality
- Belgian
- Alma mater
- Sciences Po (1978)
- Notable works
- La Salle de bain La Télévision « Cycle of Marie »
- Notable awards
- Prix Victor-Rossel Prix Médicis Prix Décembre André Cavens Award
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Occupation
- performance artist
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Field of work
- prose
- Official website
- www.jptoussaint.com
- Image
- Toussaint, Jean-Philippe 01.jpg
- Work location
- Brussels
- Residence
- Brussels
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- date of birth
- 1957-11-29
- Commons category
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint
- writing language
- French
- start of work period
- 1980-01-01
- end of work period
- 2014-01-01
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Encyclopedic 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. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir (Running Away), the second volume of the « Cycle of Marie », a four-tome chronicle published over ten years and displaying the separation of Marie and her lover. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie (The Truth about Marie), third volume of the cycle, won the Prix Décembre.
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