The Memory of the Air

Caroline Lamarche (Liège, 1955) is a novelist, poet, script writer and author of radio dramas. She spent her childhood in the north of Spain and her adolescence in the region of Paris. For many years, she suffered from insomnia. She refused to write. She kept a secret journal, married an adventurous man and moved to Africa. She taught French in English to Nigerian children. She returned to Belgium and worked as a bilingual administrator. She had two daughters in the early 80s. Ten years later, she started writing. Insomnia ended. In 2019, she received the prestigious Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle for her collection of stories "Nous sommes à la lisière" (Gallimard, 2019). She lives in the outskirts of Brussels.