Tel Quel
She was born in Etterbeek. She has contributed to the magazines "", "Tel Quel" and "Focus". Monfils published her first collection of stories "Laura Colombe, Contes pour petites filles perverse" in 1981. She has written a series of detective novels centred on the character Inspector Léon, a policeman who knits; Léon also appears in her 2004 film "Madame Édouard".