Amélie Nothomb, “Psicopompo” (Voland) – The Parallel Vision

Amélie Nothomb, “Psicopompo” (Voland) – The Parallel Vision – 10 years with you!

Pages imbued with intimacy for the most personal and autobiographical novel by the award-winning and much-loved Belgian author

Books: Amélie Nothomb, “Psicopompo” (Voland Editore)

“If I write it is also so that the frost does not solidify inside me“
Amélie Nothomb

“Amélie Nothomb celebrates here the altitudes that allow us not only to perceive the world better but to read it differently“
Le Monde

Is titled “Psychopomp” one of the latest books released in bookstores for Voland Publisher and signed by Amélie Nothomb.

In this 32nd novel Amélie Nothomb he talks to us about his love for birds and their flight.

Of his wandering childhood following his diplomat father.

Of the violence suffered as a 12-year-old on the beach in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.

Which is followed by trauma, anorexia as a cruel possibility of resurrection and finally the saving power of writing with the necessary severe discipline.

Pages imbued with intimacy for the most personal and autobiographical novel by the award-winning and much-loved Belgian author.

A book different from the previous ones but which at the same time illuminates them all.

The translation is by Federica Di Lella.

One of the 2024 books not to be missed by a writer loved all over the world and translated into 46 languages.

The author

Born in Kobe (Japan) in 1967 to diplomatic parents, Amélie Nothomb today he lives between Brussels and Paris.

Cult writer not only in France, where she made her debut in 1992 with “Killer hygiene“, the novel that immediately established her, publishes a book a year.

Climbing the sales charts with each release.

He has won many literary prizes and film and theater adaptations inspired by his novels, all translated into Italy by Voland.

Among the awards obtained there are also:

the Grand Prix du novel de l’Académie Française and the Prix Internet du Livre for “Stupor and Tremors”
the Prix de Flore for “Neither of Eve nor of Adam”
2 times the Prix du Jury Jean Giono for “Le Catilinarie” and “Cause of force majeure”
the Prix Renaudot 2021 and the Premio Strega Europeo 2022 with “First Blood”

“Thirst“, released in France in 2019, came second in the Prix Goncourt of the same year.

Furthermore, for the entirety of her work, she was awarded the Hemingway Prize for Literature 2023.