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De kinderbarak : roman

Valentine Goby (author), Floor Borsboom (translator)
In 1944 wordt de twintigjarige zwangere Mila gedeporteerd naar kamp Ravensbrück waar ze de erbarmelijke leefomstandigheden en de brute tewerkstellingen moet doorstaan. Mila probeert haar zwangerschap zo lang mogelijk te verhullen omdat ze weet dat pasgeborenen terechtkomen in de beruchte kinderbarak. De overlevingskans van baby's is daar niet groot, maar Mila is vastbesloten haar kind een kans te
Title
De kinderbarak : roman
Author
Valentine Goby
Translator
Floor Borsboom
Language
Dutch
Original language
German
Original title
Kinderzimmer
Description
237 p.
ISBN
9789402303193

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About Valentine Goby

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Valentine Goby (born 1974 in Grasse) is a French writer.

Biography

After studying at Sciences Po, Valentine Goby lived three years in Asia, in Hanoi and in Manila, where she worked for humanitarian associations with street children. She started her professional career at Accenture where she worked in Human Resources from 1999 to 2001. She never stopped writing, and published her first novel in 2002 at Éditions Gallimard: La Note sensible. She became a teacher of literature and theater, a profession she worked in college for eight years before devoting herself entirely to writing, and to numerous projects around books: workshops, meetings, conferences, writing residencies in the middle school, media library, university. She is currently a lecturer at Sciences Po in literature and writing workshops, literary consultant for the book festival of Metz 2017, and columnist for the newspaper La Croix from September 2016 to Januar…Read more on Wikipedia