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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....
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.
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'.
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...
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 the only member of her immediate family to have survived the Second World War. Her mother and father, her brother and his fiancée, her sister and her sister’s husband were all deported to concentration camps.
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.
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 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.
