Strike your Heart Book by Amélie Nothomb

This Book “Strike your Heart” is written by Amélie Nothomb. Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb, better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb is a Belgian Francophone novelist. Part of her childhood was spent in Asia. A prolific author, since the publication of her first novel Hygiene and the Assassin in 1992, at the age of twenty-six, she has published a book a year. Her novels are among the top literary sales and have been translated into several languages. She is a Commander of the Order of the Crown and has had the title of Baroness bestowed upon her by King Philippe of Belgium. Her novel Fear and Trembling won the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française in 1999, and in 2015 she was elected to the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature in Belgium. Research shows Amélie Nothomb was born in Etterbeek, Brussels-Capital Region on 9 July 1966. She has consistently claimed to have been born in Kobe, Japan in 1967 but records show her living there only from ages two to five. Subsequently, she lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, the United Kingdom (Coventry) and Laos. She stems from a Belgian noble family. Her father was the Belgian diplomat Patrick Nothomb, and she is the grandniece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980–1981), and great granddaughter of writer and politician Pierre Nothomb. She has one brother and one sister.