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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.
Jun 23, 2021 · 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.
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....
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Jul 19, 2023 · Marga Minco, Holocaust writer of understated power, dies at 103 - The Washington Post. Her best-selling 1957 novel ‘Bitter Herbs,’ based on her wartime experience in the Netherlands, made her one...
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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.
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.
Marga Minco is a Dutch journalist and writer. She is the author of such books as De andere kant, Een leeg huis, De val and De glazen brug. Background. Marga Minco was born on March 31, 1920 in Ginneken, the Netherlands to an Orthodox Jewish family.
