... I think we didn’t talked enough about Beatrice, about what she brings over with her book, her strength of life through humour, through the seizure of power against the disease and even the dialogue established with disease when she tells to her cancer: I will not die of you, I will give you nicknames, that is the power to speak, we will talk and it works. We must tell people.

Willingness to live and laughter are the most tonic thing. Laughter and love, we have not invented anything better yet.

That is why I hope you will make a huge run and publish it very quickly in pocket version.

Didier VAN CAUWELAERT, to Béatrice MAILLARD-CHAULIN, ÇA SE DISCUTE on FRANCE 2, May 3 2000 & on TV 5, September 12 2000.

Didier van Cauwelaert was born in Nice in 1960. A dramatist, but also a comics, scripts for film and television dialogue author( "The Murdered House” by G. Lautner), he wrote many novels. Translated into about thirty languages, his novels regularly exceed one hundred thousand copies in France. Didier van Cauwelaert is the author of a story, "Madame et ses flics". On compte parmi ses oeuvres théâtrales Among his theatrical works: : "L'Astronome" (Prix du théâtre de L'Académie française 1983) ; "Le Nègre" ; "Noces de sable" (1995). His adaptation of Marcel Aymé, "Le Passe-Muraille", won the Molière in 1997 for best musical. Didier van Cauwelaert received the Grand Prix Théâtre de l'Académie française for all his works.