Isabelle Spaak (born 5 October 1960) is a Belgian writer living in Paris. 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. Spaak moved to France later that year, attending Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. She went on to work as a journalist for VSD; later, she was put in charge of the culture pages of . She is perhaps best known for two autobiographical novels Ça ne se fait pas (2004), which received the Prix Victor-Rossel, and Pas du tout mon genre (2006). 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. Publications Paris, 1999 Ça ne se fait pas : roman, 2004 Pas du tout mon genre : roman, 2006 Militants, 2011 Une allure folle : roman, 2016 Une mère, etc., 2019 References 1960 births Living people Belgian journalists Belgian women novelists Artists from Brussels Belgian expatriates in France Writers from Paris 21st-century Belgian novelists Belgian non-fiction writers 21st-century Belgian women writers Belgian women journalists