Berthe Burko-Falcman

A French novelist born in Paris in 1935 to a Bundist Jewish family that had emigrated from Poland, Berthe Burko-Falcman was a hidden child during the Second World War; her father, Aron Falcman, was deported to Auschwitz in 1942. A doctor of letters with a thesis on Albert Cohen and a former French teacher, she is the author of several novels published by Seuil, among them La Dernière Vie de madame K. (The Last Life of Madame K.; 1982), Chronique de la source rouge (Chronicle of the Red Spring; 1996), L'Enfant caché (The Hidden Child; 1997) and Un prénom républicain (A Republican First Name; 2007).