Christine Aventin
French-language Belgian writer.
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christine Aventin is a French-language Belgian writer. When she was just 15, she published Le Cœur en poche, which sold over 100,000 copies. Bibliography The daughter of a Dutch teacher, Aventin was born in Hermalle-sous-Argenteau near Liège in southwestern Belgium. She studied French language and literature at University of Liège and English literature at Leeds University. She went on to teach Belgian literature at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. In 1988, when she was 15, she published Le Cœur en poche. It tells the story of Alexandre, a prostitute's daughter, whose life is split between days with her friends at high school and nights in the world of prostitution. In order to get it published as quickly as possible, she took the manuscript to the Mercure de France publishing house, explaining that she was the daughter of a prostitute and had written her autobiography. She admitted later that she had made it all up but the book had already sold over 100,000 copies.
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