Mr Schaka, Belgian author between Liège and Bangkok: Liège mysteries, true stories and Thailand guides

New release · I Still Breathe

Biography

Mr Schaka is a Belgian author who lives between Liège and Bangkok. In 2020, a pulmonologist gave him five years: interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, followed by rheumatoid arthritis, with no treatment and an annual check-up at Liège University Hospital. He made neither a fight nor a subject of it: simply a fact that stripped away what was superfluous.

His answer was a plane ticket: three months in Thailand, first with Gabriel and then with Chu, from Bangkok to Koh Samui and Isan, where they have dinner on a boat in the middle of a lake. From that journey came The Season of Breath, a true story, funny and luminous.

Then came I Still Breathe, a more intimate testimony: ten chapters, a glossary of thirty-three words and twenty-one sources. He also writes Oscar’s Notebook, four investigations set in Liège, and practical guides to Thailand.

The desire to live fully is not revenge. It is a habit: getting up, counting the steps, stopping, setting off again — and spending what breath remains.

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