Bart van Es.
BART VAN ES: BIOGRAPHY OF AN ADOPTED CHILD
THE CUT OUT GIRL: A STORY OF WAR AND FAMILY, LOST AND FOUND (2018)
Winner of the 2018 Costa Prize.
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The grandparents of Bart van Es adopted little Lien, whose Jewish parents in the Hague had, during the Nazi occupation, given her away for her safety. After being raised by her foster parents, Lien discovered that neither of her parents had suvived the Holocaust. Lien fell out with her foster parents, and Bart van Es set out to discover why this was. This started a remarkable voyage of discovery, during which van Es developed a close friendship with the now 80 year old Lien. He weaves Lien’s harrowing life story into that of his grandparents. The Times reviewer wrote: ‘Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting’.
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Bart van Es (born 1972) is a writer and critic who is Professor of English at Oxford University. He was born in the Netherlands, and his family lived in Indonesia, Dubai, and Norway before settling in the UK, where van Es studied English at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. His academic speciality is the work of the English poet Edmund Spenser. He has also published on William Shakespeare and his relationship with the actors of the King’s Men.
