Great Female Writers - Moving Away From "Le Petit Prince": Amélie Nothomb

When one is an early learner of French, and trying to graduate from textbooks to real books, there are suggestions that appear again and again. Le Petit Prince is charming and readable, Tintin has an endless back catalogue, and L’Etranger by Albert Camus is every single teacher’s go-to. However, if you want to veer carefully off the beaten track, the Belgian author, Amélie Nothomb, is an excellent choice (you can also read her in translation).