Eugène Savitzkaya is a French language poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist from Liège, Belgium. Born in Saint-Nicolas, Belgium, in 1955, he has written several books of poetry — including Les couleurs de boucherie (Bougois, 1980), Bufo bufo bufo (Minuit, 1989) — and many theater pieces. In Life (En vie [Minuit, 1995]) is his first novel translated into English. His novels include Mentir (Minuit, 1977), La disparition de maman (Minuit, 1982), Les morts sentent bon (Minuit, 1984), Sang de chien (Minuit, 1989), Marin mon coeur (Minuit, 1992) and Exquise Louise (Minuit, 2003). Other work translated into English include the prose poetry collection Rules of Solitude (Quale, 2004), which was the first of his books translated into English.