Lieve Joris

The Daily Telegraph called it "an intelligent and at times beautiful reckoning of one of the great human dramas of our age",[3] Philip Gourevitch selected it in The New Yorker as one of four essential books on Rwanda.

[4] The French daily Libération hailed her as "one of the best journalists in the world", adding: "Lieve Joris has that rare ability to follow both paths, the general and the particular, the panorama and the close-up, the analysis and the narrative, without ever losing track of either.

In 2010 Mijn Afrikaanse telefooncel (My African Telephone Booth) was published: short stories about Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe – the three focus points of Joris' work.

Libération wrote: "Lieve Joris publishes a remarkable family story, interwoven with miniatures and anecdotes, about the wild life and tragic fate of an older brother who was both admired and cursed.

"[11] The French Le Point commented: "At first it makes you somewhat dizzy, what a family, but as you read on, everything tightens on the dark trajectory of her brother, a seductive, talented and destructive angel.