Nadine Monfils

Nadine Monfils (born 12 February 1953) is a Belgian writer and film director and producer.

She was born in Etterbeek. She has contributed to the magazines , Tel Quel and Focus. Monfils published her first collection of stories Laura Colombe, Contes pour petites filles perverse in 1981. She has written a series of detective novels centred on the character Inspector Léon, a policeman who knits; Léon also appears in her 2004 film Madame Édouard.

She has taught screenwriting at the Parallax school for comedians and the Université Européenne d’Ecriture in Brussels and also in a number of prisons in France. Monflils lives in Montmartre.

Selected works

 * Un Noël de chien, short film (2000)
 * Madame Édouard, film (2004)
 * La petite fêlée aux allumettes, novel (2012)
 * Les vacances d’un serial killer, novel (2012)
 * La Vieille qui voulait tuer le bon dieu, novel (2013)
 * Mémé goes to Hollywood, novel (2014)