[2] She worked with doctor Willy Peers, who was trying to gain women the right to choose abortion.
She met the psychiatrist Jean-Pierre Lebrun in 1984, who introduced her to the works of authors Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute and Gustave Flaubert, also encouraging her to write.
[1] In 1984, she released the novel Hôpital silence, which received favourable comments from Duras.
[2] In 1993, Malinconi published Nous deux, which won the Prix Victor-Rossel.
Extracts from her work were adapted for the stage by comedian Nicole Colchat as Elles which was presented in Namur in 1996.