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Marga Minco (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɑrɣaː ˈmɪŋkoː]; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2023) born Sara Menco, and for some time known as Marga Faes was a Dutch journalist and writer, and a Holocaust survivor.
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....
Marga Minco (b. 1920) is a Dutch writer famous for her literary work relating to the Holocaust and for her economical use of words. Both topic and writing style have made her work unique.
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'.
Marga Minco (pseudonym of Sara Menco, 31 March 1920 – July 10, 2023 [1] [2] [3]) 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.
Jul 19, 2023 · That young woman, the protagonist of the best-selling 1957 Dutch novel “Bitter Herbs,” bears a striking resemblance to the book’s author, Marga Minco, a Holocaust survivor who became one of ...
MINCO, Marga. Pseudonym for Sara Menco. Nationality: Dutch. Born: Ginneken, 31 March 1920. Family: Married Bert Voeten in 1945 (died 1992); two daughters. Career: Lives and works in Amsterdam.
Jun 4, 2020 · In fact, she was a twenty-year-old journalist for the Bredasche Courant and her story of the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands is not a first-person text in a narrow sense, but rather a subtle and complex literary work, permeated with allusions to Jewish culture.
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.
Jul 20, 2023 · A young woman is drinking tea with her mother and father one spring evening when they hear a convoy of trucks roll past their window in Amsterdam. They know what.
