Claudine Muno (born 2 July 1979) is a

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ish author, singer, musician, music teacher, and journalist.

Early life and education

Muno spent her childhood in

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and finished secondary school with a diploma in modern languages, literature, and Latin. She received an undergraduate degree in history at the

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, France, where she wrote a dissertation on Luxembourgish film: ''Peur de l'oubli - Peur de l'autre. Les films et documentaires luxembourgeois ayant pour sujet la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale'' (French: Fear of forgetting, fear of the Other. Luxembourgish films and documentaries covering the Second World War).

Career

After graduating, she became the full-time cultural editor of the Luxembourgish weekly left/green-wing magazine ''woxx''. As of 2007, she has been teaching music in the Neie Lycée, a pilot secondary school in Luxembourg City.

Author

In 1996, Muno's first publication was a triple surprise for the Luxembourgish book market: the author was not only female (which was rare until then), she was also young (16 years old), and she wrote in English, a language rarely used in

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. In the following years, Muno has published a novel in French, one in German, and three in Luxembourgish. She has also co-authored two children picture storybooks with Pascale Junker who did the illustrations, and she has written two plays in Luxembourgish: ''Speck'' and ''Krakullen''. Book critics have compared her writing style to the Belgian writer

Amélie Nothomb Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb (; born 13 August 1967''État présent de la noblesse belge'', éditions of 1979, 1995 and 2010. Her birth is announced in n° 87, aout 1967, p. 340 of the ''Bulletin de l'association de la noblesse du royaume de ...

Musician

Although Muno's first CD was first published by her book publisher, she is nationally and internationally known as Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots, who have already produced two albums.

Awards

* Prix littéraire national 2000 (National Literary Prize) for her short-story ''Crickets'' * Servais Prize (2004) for her novel ''Frigo''

Bibliography

* Muno, Claudine: ''The Moon of the Big Winds''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1996. * Muno, Claudine: ''Träume, aus denen man zu spät aufwacht''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1997. * Junker, Pascale & Muno, Claudine: ''Dem Zoe seng Geschichten''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1998. * Junker, Pascale & Muno, Claudine: ''D'Zoe, Draachen a Siweschléifer. Dem Zoe seng Geschichten 2''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1999. * Muno, Claudine: ''21''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1999. * Muno, Claudine: ''De Fleeschkinnek''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 2002. * Muno, Claudine: ''Frigo''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay. 2003. * Muno, Claudine: ''Koma''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 2005. * Muno, Claudine: ''d'welt geet ënner, nils poulet''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 2006.

Discography

* Muno, Claudine: ''Fish out of Water''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1998. * Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: ''faith + love + death''. Maskénada (Luxembourg), 2004. * Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: ''Monsters''. Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourg): Op der Lay, 1998. * Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: ''Petites chansons méchantes''
Green l.f.ant Records
Brussels, 2007. * Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: ''Noctambul''
Green l.f.ant Records
Brussels, 2010. * Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: ''Carmagnoles'' (Compilation). Volvox Music, Moret-sur-Loing (France), 2011.

References

External links

The Luna Boots Official Facebook
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