Isabelle Spaak

{{Short description|Belgian writer (born 1960)}}

Isabelle Spaak (born 5 October 1960) is a Belgian writer living in Paris.{{cite news |url=http://archives.lesoir.be/isabelle-spaak-prix-victor-rossel-2004-comme-un-retour-_t-20041202-Z0Q1FD.html |title=Isabelle Spaak, Prix Victor Rossel 2004 |page=24 |date=December 2, 2004 |newspaper=Le Soir |language=fr}}

The daughter of Fernand Spaak and Anna-Maria Farina, she was born in Brussels and grew up there. In July 1981, her mother killed her father and then committed suicide.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19810721&id=X-5AAAAAIBAJ&pg=2497,3862444&hl=en |title=Wife shot Spaak then killed herself |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=July 21, 1981 |page=5}}{{cite news |url=http://archives.lesoir.be/litterature-les-cinq-finalistes-du-prix-rossel-et-ceux-_t-20041119-Z0PZT2.html |title=Les cinq finalistes du prix Rossel et ceux du Rossel des jeunes |newspaper=Le Soir |date=November 19, 2004 |page=24 |language=fr}} Spaak moved to France later that year, attending Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.{{cite news |url=http://www.lejdd.fr/Culture/Livres/Isabelle-Spaak-la-mauvaise-reputation-771723 |title=Isabelle Spaak, la mauvaise réputation |newspaper=JDD |date=February 7, 2015 |language=fr}} She went on to work as a journalist for VSD;{{cite news |url=http://archives.lesoir.be/medias-et-moi-isabelle-spaak-est-une-grande-sauvage-ses_t-20041218-Z0Q3AT.html |title=Isabelle Spaak est une grande sauvage |newspaper=Le Soir |date=December 18, 2004 |page=33 |language=fr}} later, she was put in charge of the culture pages of {{Interlanguage link multi|Le Parisien Magazine|fr}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.rtbf.be/tv/emission/detail_c-est-du-belge/actualites/article_isabelle-spaak?id=7883688&emissionId=56 |title=Isabelle Spaak |work=C’est du Belge |publisher=RTBF |language=fr}}

She is perhaps best known for two autobiographical novels Ça ne se fait pas (2004), which received the Prix Victor-Rossel,{{cite web |url=http://www.fondationprincepierre.mc/fr/oeuvres/isabelle-spaak/000242/ca-ne-se-fait-pas.html |title=Ca ne se fait pas |publisher=Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco |language=fr}} and Pas du tout mon genre (2006).{{cite web |url=http://www.promotiondeslettres.cfwb.be/index.php?id=spaakpasdutoutmongenre |title=Adultère, mode d'emploi |work=Le Carnet et les Instants |publisher=Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles |language=fr}} In 2011, she published Militants, a non-fiction work on the French Socialist party. Spaak published a third novel Une allure folle, based on the lives of her mother and grandmother, in 2016.