Title: Hygiene of the Assassin - Amélie NOTHOMB - book
Summary :
Tach, eighty-three years old, Nobel Prize winner for literature, has only two months to live. A monster of obesity and misanthropy, he plays with cynical cruelty to turn away the journalists who come to interview him.
The first four flee in terror. The fifth, Nina, will get the better of him and his secret: beneath the words hides the crime, and beneath the work, the imposture. Literature, the real kind, is made of tears and blood.