... I think we didn’t talk enough about Beatrice, about what she brings over with her book, the strength of life she shows through humour, through the seizure of a power held until then by the disease, and even the dialogue established with disease when she tells her cancer: You won't kill me, I 'm going to give you nicknames, that's the power of speech and we're going to talk and it's going to work. People must be aware of it.

The want for life, as well as laughter, are the most stimulating things. There’s noth­ing better than laughter and love...”

That is why I hope it's going to be a bestseller, and be published very quickly in a 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 Cauwelaertwas born in Nice in 1960. Playwright, he also wrote numerous comics, scripts and dialogues for cinema and TV( dialogue of "The Murdered House” by G. Lautner), as well as novels. Translated into thirty languages or so, his novels often exceed the one hundred thousand copies in France. Didier van Cauwelaert also is the author of a story, "Madame et ses flics". Among the plays he wrote: "L'Astronome" (rewarded Prix du théâtre de L'Académie française 1983) ; "Le Nègre" ; "Noces de sable" (1995). His adaptation of Marcel Aymé's short story, "Le Passe-Muraille", won the 1997 Molière for best musical. Didier van Cauwelaert was awarded the Grand Prix Théâtre de l'Académie française for his whole work.