Monique Watteau

Alika Lindbergh (born Monique Dubois, 23 December 1929), commonly known by her former name Monique Watteau, is a Belgian fantasy fiction writer and artist.

Early life Watteau was born Monique Dubois in Liège on 23 December 1929. Her father was Hubert Dubois, a playwright and poet with ties to Surrealism.

Watteau studied painting and drawing at the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Liège, and then went on to the Royal Conservatory of Liège to study theatre. At twenty, she left Belgium for Paris, where she met the Belgian scientist Bernard Heuvelmans, famous for his work in cryptozoology. She also worked as a photography model. The writer described Watteau's novels as prime examples of feminism in twentieth-century fantasy.

Her first three novels were written under the name Monique Watteau; her fourth gave her name as Monique-Alika Watteau. After its publication, she abandoned the name Monique altogether, and later Alika Lindbergh. including her work as the primary illustrator of Bernard Heuvelmans's books.

In the 1970s, Watteau published two new books, Nous sommes deux dans l'Arche et Quand les singes hurleurs se tairont.

Personal life Heuvelmans was Watteau's first husband;

She married zoologist Scott Lindbergh, Watteau and Lindbergh separated in 1983. and was with him at his death in 2001. Alika Lindbergh, Quand les singes hurleurs se tairont (Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1976) Alika Lindbergh, Le testament d'une fée (Paris: E-dite, 2002) Alika Lindbergh, "Préface," in Jean-Jacques Barloy, Bernard Heuvelmans, un rebelle de la science (Paris: Oeil du sphinx, 2007)

As illustrator Hubert Dubois, Le danseur du sacre: poèmes, frontispiece by Monique Watteau (Brussels: Éditions des artistes, 1953) André Romus, Voix dans le labyrinthe, frontispiece by Monique Watteau (Paris: Éditions James, P.J. Oswald, 1954) Bernard Heuvelmans, Sur la piste des bêtes ignorées, illustrations by Monique Watteau (Paris: Plon, 1955) Bernard Heuvelmans, Dans le sillage des monstres marins, Vol. I, Le kraken et le poulpe colossal, illustrations by Monique Watteau (Paris: Plon, 1958) Edward Lear, Le hibou et la poussiquette, translated by Francis Steegmuller, illustrated by Monique-Alika Watteau (London: Hart-Davis, 1961) Bernard Heuvelmans, Le grand serpent-de-mer: le problème zoologique et sa solution: histoire des bêtes ignorées de la mer, illustrated by Alika Watteau (Paris: Plon, 1965) Albert Jeannin, En vacances avec l'oncle Antoine, four volumes, illustrated by Alika Watteau (Lausanne: Rencontre, 1967) Bernard Heuvelmans, Les derniers dragons d'Afrique, illustrated by Alika Lindbergh (Paris: Plon, 1978) Bernard Heuvelmans, Les bêtes humaines d'Afrique, illustrated by Alika Lindbergh (Paris: Plon, 1980) Jean-Léo, Histoire illustrée du cirque à Bruxelles: saltimbanques et gens du voyage depuis le dix-septième siècle, illustrations by Alika Lindbergh and others (Brussels: Archives générales du Royaume, 1998)

Other works

Ian Cameron, Le cimetière des cachalots, translated from the English by Alika Watteau (Paris: Laffont, 1966) Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, L'agonie des bébés phoques, contributions by Alika Lindbergh and others (Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1978) Regards croisés: collectif d'artistes peintres animaliers: Zsuzsa Farkas, Alika Lindbergh, István Nemes, catalogue for a Musée Cantonal de Zoologie exhibition of paintings by Lindbergh and others, 17 March to 19 May 2002 (Lausanne: Musée cantonal de zoologie, 2002)