Claudine Muno


Claudine Muno is a Luxembourgish author, singer, musician, music teacher, and journalist.

Early life and education

Muno spent her childhood in Pétange and finished secondary school with a diploma in modern languages, literature, and Latin. She received an undergraduate degree in history at the University of Strasbourg, 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.

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, she was also young, and she wrote in English, a language rarely used in Luxembourg literature. 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.

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 for her short-story Crickets
  • Servais Prize for her novel ''Frigo''

Discography

  • Muno, Claudine: Fish out of Water. Esch-sur-Sûre : Op der Lay, 1998.
  • Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: faith + love + death. Maskénada, 2004.
  • Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: Monsters. Esch-sur-Sûre : Op der Lay, 1998.
  • Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: Petites chansons méchantes., Brussels, 2007.
  • Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: Noctambul., Brussels, 2010.
  • Claudine Muno and The Luna Boots: Carmagnoles. Volvox Music, Moret-sur-Loing, 2011.