# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-philippe-toussaint
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:31:59.868Z

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name: "Jean-Philippe Toussaint"
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description: "Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir, the second volume of the « Cycle of Marie », a four-tome chronicle published over ten years and displaying the separation of Marie and her lover. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie, third volume of the cycle, won the Prix Décembre."
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birthDate: "1957-11-29"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump