This is an automatically translated description

Caroline Lamarche is the author of several novels, short stories, essays and radio plays. She is a member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium.

Caroline Lamarche's novel The Day of the Dog (1996) won the Victor Rossel Prize, Belgium's most prominent literary award. It was the first book by the author who was destined to lay down the canon of the modern Belgian novel in short stories. The events in the novel revolve around a seemingly banal situation: a mad dog is chased in the middle of a motorway. However, everyone who saw it perceived the image through the prism of their own lives and problems. A priest, a trucker, a homosexual, a widow - for each of them, the dog became the starting point of a new self-awareness.