Isabelle Spaak

Isabelle Spaak (born 5 October 1960) is a Belgian writer living in Paris. 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