Didier van Cauwelaert est un romancier et dramaturge français, né d'une famille d'origine belge.

Didier van Cauwelaert is a French novelist and playwright with Belgian roots.

Well-known French writer Didier van CAUWELAERT has some very big literary successes in his portfolio.

From the age of 8 he dreamed of taking up a pen to become independent and feed his family.

After devoting several years to theatre, to playing Sartre and directing Beckett, Anouilh, Ionesco, and after a brief career as a children's book critic, a chance meeting with a certain Greta GARBO got his foot in the door.

In 1982 he published (at last) his first book “Vingt ans et des poussières” with Editions du Seuil, just after his 22nd birthday. He would reach an ever wider publ