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about me
Born in Belgium, brought up everywhere, Sweden, Egypt, Russia, Colombia, USA, France. First language: Swedish (now forgotten), next French, Arabic (forgotten), English, Russian (forgotten), Spanish (weak), Italian.
M.A. in economics (Columbia University) and worked at all kinds of things, from banking to editing, free-lance journalism, teaching college, and finally working for the United Nations in Rome (1978-2003).
Through all this, I have always painted (see my website) and written books: fictionand non fiction.
Now I'm having fun on my blog under the (pen) name CLAUDE NOUGAT (see link below) and writing, writing, writing!
favourite books
The Stieg Larsson trilogy
Robert Harris, The Ghost
Marc Levy, Et si c'était vrai
Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et Tremblements
Pirandello's plays - all of them!
Dostoievsky - all of them!
Tolstoy, all of them!
Gogol, Dead Souls
Lord of the Rings
Clockwork Orange
The Day of the Triffids
etc etc
my websites
http://www.claude-paintings.com
http://claudenougat.blogspot.com
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