Toussaint was born in Brussels. As an amateur he won the Italian Amateur Championship, was runner up in the Belgian Amateur Championship, and twice represented Belgium in the Eisenhower Trophy.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint (29 November 1957, Brussels) is a Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan.
Průzračnost, smutek oné poslední noci probleskuje bílým světlem sněhu a žhne v přetopeném pokoji, zároveň však tón knihy nikdy nesklouzává k prvoplánovému patosu, hlas je neustále držen na uzdě trefnými sarkastickými pozorováními okolí…