Marga Minco
Marga Minco
Marga Minco
Marga Minco
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1957
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1974
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1982
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1983
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1986
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1994
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.
Marga Minco attended a girls’ public school in Breda.
In 1938, Marga Minco began her career at the local newspaper the Bredase Courant, first reporting on films and becoming a member of the editorial staff. Two years later Minco was affected by the measures of Dutch citizens who collaborated with the German occupier to exclude Jews from public life. She was dismissed from her post and left Breda, moving to Amsterdam, where she gave drawing lessons at a Jewish elementary school.
During the early 1950s she published short stories in various magazines and newspapers. In 1957, Marga made her literary debut with the short novel Het bittere kruid. It is considered her most autobiographical book and tells the story of an unnamed girl who escapes deportation to the concentration camps. The novel was translated into several languages. It was also adapted as a film by Kees van Oostrum in 1985. In her subsequent novels, Minco continues to explore this theme. Een leeg huis is set just after the end of the war, and focuses on the young woman, Sepha, and her alter ego, Yona. This splitting device allows Minco to show various ways in which the character copes with the burden of her survival.
In addition to novels and short stories, Marga also wrote books for children and scripts for television.
Minco is one of the most popular Dutch writers. She is the recipient of numerous awards among which are Constantijn Huygens Prize, P.C. Hooft Award, Mutator prize, Annie Romein prize and others. Her books were translated into several languages and are still popular, particularly among secondary school pupils.
Marga Minco married Bert Voeten in 1945. Their marriage produced two children.
