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Marga Minco was born Sara Menco [a] in Ginneken on 31 March 1920 to an Orthodox Jewish family. Her father was Salomon (1887–1943), and was parnas (warden) in the local Jewish community; he may have worked as a salesman. Her mother was Grietje Minco-van Hoorn (1889–1943). She had a brother, David, and a sister, Bettie.
Jul 15, 2023 · Marga Minco, a Dutch novelist who was one of the last of a generation of European Holocaust authors whose works are widely considered literary classics, died on Monday at her home in Amsterdam ...
Jun 23, 2021 · Dutch author Marga Minco grew up in a predominantly Catholic city, where she felt conspicuous about her Jewish identity. At the age of eighteen, she began to work as journalist at the local newspaper but was dismissed in 1940 when the Netherlands capitulated to the Nazis. Minco’s immediate family were all murdered in the Holocaust, but Minco ...
Marga Minco, pseudoniem van Sara Minco (Ginneken, 31 maart 1920 – Amsterdam, 10 juli 2023), was een Nederlandse schrijfster van 'humoristische en absurdistische verhalen en suggestieve, sobere vertellingen'. Haar veel vertaalde oorlogskroniek Het bittere kruid (1957) is een klassieker uit de Europese literatuur over de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Jul 19, 2023 · July 19, 2023 at 1:28 p.m. EDT. Marga Minco was the only member of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust. She is shown here in hiding in 1943. (Family photo) 8 min. A young woman is ...
In 2005, Marga Minco was awarded the prestigious Constantijn Huygens Prize for her entire oeuvre. In 2018 Minco won the P.C. Hooft Prize 2019, one of the most important Dutch literary awards. The jury praised her as the author of a modest and intensely powerful body of work. ‘Without psychologizing, without resorting to pathos or pretention, she enables us to understand and fully engage with an inconceivable reality.’ ...
Almost everything Marga Minco has written is, to a greater or lesser degree, marked by her experiences as a Jew in The Netherlands during the German occupation (1940-45). Born in 1920 with the name Sara Menco, she was the youngest child in an Orthodox Jewish family. As a young journalist she distanced herself from Orthodoxy and developed a sturdy independence that helped her survive by passing, with her blue eyes and dyed-blond hair, as a Christian. ...
Jul 15, 2023 · Dutch author Marga Minco has died at the age of 103, her relatives have said. Minco, who was Jewish, is most famous for her bestselling book Het Bittere Kruid (Bitter Herbs, 1957)) in which she evokes the WWII years in 22 short stories. In 2018 Minco was awarded the Netherlands most prestigious literary prize PC Hooftprijs. The author was in her early 20s when she escaped from being transported to a concentration camp by simply walking out of the house...
Jun 4, 2020 · About a year ago, Marga Minco was presented with the P.C. Hooft Award for narrative prose, a well-deserved recognition although it came remarkably late. However, Minco’s modest oeuvre (five short novels, a sizeable volume entitled Collected Stories and a few children’s books) never completely dropped off the radar: her best-known novel, Bitter Herbs (1957), has thus far gone into its fifty-ninth edition.
Marga Minco (pseudoniem van Sara Minco) debuteerde in 1957 met Het bittere kruid, bekroond met de Vijverbergprijs (nu F. Bordewijkprijs).Ook haar latere werk, De andere kant (1959), Een leeg huis (1966), De val (1983), De glazen brug (1986), Nagelaten dagen (1997) en de bundel verzamelde verhalen Achter de muur (2010), had veelal de Tweede Wereldoorlog en de nasleep daarvan als onderwerp. Voor haar oeuvre ontving Minco de Annie Romeinprijs (1999), de Constantijn Huygensprijs (2005) en de P ...
MINCO, MARGA (1920– ), Dutch author, born in Ginneken (near Breda), who lived in Amsterdam. Her first book, the short novel Het bittere kruid (1957; The Bitter Herb, 1960), describes the deportation of her family and her own survival in hiding during World War II. It was translated into many languages. The book, like the ones that were to follow, was praised for its sparing yet impressive style. Marga Minco was one of the first Dutch writers to deal with "survivor's guilt."
This inability to let go of the past is the undeniable, overarching theme of Marga Minco’s work. Author. Marga Minco. Original title. Het bittere kruid. Bitter Herbs, which dates from 1957, is Minco’s debut novel. The title refers to a ritual which is part of the Jewish Seder, when unleavened bread and bitter herbs are eaten, partly to commemorate the exodus from Egypt, and partly to sym- bolise the hospitality offered to strangers. She calls her ninety-page novel ‘a little chronicle ...
Jul 31, 2020 · Marga Minco’s autobiographical novel Bitter Herbs is a Dutch classic that has been translated into more than fifteen languages. This deceptively simple and profoundly moving tale is now reissued with a new translation by Jeannette K Ringold.
Marga Minco has 30 books on Goodreads with 9547 ratings. Marga Minco’s most popular book is Het bittere kruid.
Novel by Marga Minco, 1957. In most of her writings Marga Minco returns, to a greater or lesser extent, to the period of the German occupation of her native Holland (1940-45). Her experiences of this time are central to her first novel, Bitter Herbs (1960; Het bittere Kruid, 1957), which consists of 21 chapters and an epilogue. Each chapter is devoted to one event or one aspect of life under the Germans. The epilogue is set in the postwar period and poignantly states the difficulty many ...
Marga Minco (pseudonym of Sara Menco, 31 March 1920 – July 10, 2023) was a Dutch journalist and writer. Her real surname was Menco, but an official accidentally switched the first vowel. She was born in Ginneken to an Orthodox Jewish family. In 1957 Minco published her first book, Het bittere kruid ("The bitter herb"). The title of a later book was Een leeg huis ("A empty house"). Awards. 1957 ...
Marga Minco’s autobiographical novel Bitter Herbs is a Dutch classic that has been translated into more than fifteen languages. This deceptively simple and profoundly moving tale is now reissued with a new translation by Jeannette K Ringold. Read more Report an issue with this product. Previous slide of product details. Print length. 160 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Ebury Press. Publication date. 17 September 2020. Dimensions. 12.6 x 1.27 x 19.81 cm. ISBN-10. 1529106494.
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Marga Minco This short story is a poignant account of a daughter who goes in search of her mother’s belongings after the War, in Holland. When she finds them, the objects evoke memories of her earlier life. However, she decides to leave them all behind and resolves to move on. ‘DO you still know me?’ I asked. The woman looked at me searchingly. She had opened the door a chink. I came closer and stood on the step.
Duch author Marga Minco, 28 March 1981 Photo by Hans van Dijk. From Wikimedia Commons.
Jul 20, 2023 · Marga Minco, Holocaust writer of understated power, dies at 103. By Emily Langer The Washington Post; Jul 20, 2023 Jul 20, 2023 Updated Aug 11, 2023; Facebook; Twitter; Linkedin; SMS;
Aug 17, 2023 · The Address by Marga Minco revolves around the theme of crisis that we as an individual encounter in our daily life. War brings destruction, pain, and loss of lives which impact humans in various ways. However, this story speaks about the narrator and mother’s life how they are disrupted due to war.
Marga Minco was born on March 31, 1920 in Ginneken, the Netherlands to an Orthodox Jewish family. Her pious father Salomon held the position of warden in the local Jewish community and probably made a living as a salesman. Minco’s mother Grietje Minco-van Hoorn was trained as a teacher. She had a brother David and sister Betje. Education Marga Minco attended a girls’ public school in Breda. ...
Jun 17, 2024 · Summary “The Address”: Marga Minco’s “The Address” tells the story of a daughter from Jewish background who returns to Holland after World War II to retrieve her mother’s belongings from a woman named Mrs. Dorling. During the war, Mrs. Dorling had taken the items for safekeeping.
