Marga Minco

Marga Minco was born on 31 March 1920 in Ginneken, near Breda, the third child of an Orthodox Jewish family. Hired in 1938 as a journalist at the Bredasche Courant, she was dismissed the day after the capitulation because of her origins, the first in her profession to be treated so. Hidden under the name Marga Faes, whose first name she kept, she was, with an uncle, the only survivor of her family: her parents, her brother and her sister were murdered. Married in 1945 to the poet Bert Voeten, and winner of the P. C. Hooft Prize in 2019, she died in Amsterdam on 10 July 2023, aged one hundred and three.

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• NovelBitter HerbsHet bittere kruidMarga Minco · 1957Literature