Ariane Le Fort
{{Short description|Belgian writer (born 1960)}}
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|birth_date={{birth date and age|1960|6|18|df=y}}
|birth_place=Mons, Belgium
|occupation=Writer
|nationality=Belgian
|alma_mater=Goshen College
Université libre de Bruxelles
|awards=Prix Victor-Rossel (2003)
|children=2
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Ariane Le Fort (born 18 June 1960) is a Belgian writer.{{cite web |url=http://culture.ulg.ac.be/jcms/prod_657329/fr/ariane-le-fort |title=Ariane Le Fort |work=Culture |publisher=Université de Liège}}
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.{{cite web |url=http://www.servicedulivre.be/sll/fiches_auteurs/l/le-fort-ariane.html |title=Ariane Le Fort |publisher=Service du Livre Luxembourgeois |language=fr}} 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{{cite news |url=http://archives.lesoir.be/portrait-ariane-le-fort-le-plaisir-d-etre-immorale-en-t_t-19990531-Z0GUQW.html |title=Ariane Le Fort, le plaisir d'être immorale en toute impunité |newspaper=Le Soir |date=May 31, 1999 |language=fr}} and teaches writing. Le Fort works hard to balance these activities with her writing.{{cite web |url=http://www.promotiondeslettres.cfwb.be/index.php?eID=tx_nawsecuredl&u=0&file=fileadmin/sites/pdl/upload/pdl_super_editor/pdl_editor/images/ariane_lefort_2013.pdf&hash=0f7e7a5a93ed2fda0e2fdaed0acd4c85782de811 |title=Ariane Le Fort |publisher=Ministère de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles}}
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)
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Category:Goshen College alumni
Category:Writers from Brussels
Category:Université libre de Bruxelles alumni
Category:Belgian women novelists
Category:20th-century Belgian novelists
Category:21st-century Belgian novelists
Category:20th-century Belgian women writers
Category:21st-century Belgian women writers
Category:Belgian women journalists
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