Ariane Le Fort

Ariane Le Fort
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Born	(1960-06-18) 18 June 1960 Mons, Belgium
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Belgian
Alma mater	Goshen College Université libre de Bruxelles
Notable awards	Prix Victor-Rossel (2003)
Children	2

Ariane Le Fort (born 18 June 1960) is a Belgian writer.

Biography

The daughter of a Swiss father and a Belgian mother, she was born in Mons and grew up there and in Brussels. She studied Latin and Greek at the Athénée Royal de Rixensart, then spent a year at Goshen College in Indiana and went on to study journalism and communications at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Le Fort has worked as a journalist, as a librarian, as a retail clerk in a book store and as a homework tutor. She is also mother of two children and teaches writing. Le Fort works hard to balance these activities with her writing.

Selected works

• L'eau froide efface les rêves, novel (1989)
• Comment font les autres?, novel (1994)
• Rassurez-vous, tout le monde a peur, novel (1999)
• Beau-fils, novel (2003), received the Prix Victor-Rossel
• On ne va pas se quitter comme ça ?, novel (2010)
• Avec plaisir, François, novel (2013)