Denise Affonso ( French: Denise Affonço ; born 1944 , Phnom Penh ) is a Cambodian writer, memoirist , best-selling author of The The Of Of Hell ( French La Digues Des Veuves ), in which she described her life during the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia 1975-1979 Her book was originally published in French , but was subsequently translated into English and published by Reportage Press.
| Denise Affonso | |
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| Denise affonço | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Citizenship |  Cambodia |
| Occupation | memoirist |
| Genre | memoirs |
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Bibliography
- 3 References
- 3.1 Interview
Biography
Denise Affonso was born in 1944 in Phnom Penh (Cambodia). Father is French , mother is Vietnamese. Her childhood and youth passed in the years of peace before war broke out in Indochina. Her life was destroyed in April 1975 , when the Khmer Rouge came to power in the country. For four years, Denise lived in unbearable conditions of the Polpot regime: her husband went missing and her daughter died of starvation.
Bibliography
- Denise Affonço, David Chandler , Jon Swain. To the End of Hell: One Woman's Struggle to Survive Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. - London: Reportage Press, 2007 .-- 165 p. - ISBN 0955572959 .
Links
- Denise Affonço. Excerpt from To the End of Hell (inaccessible link) . Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Date of treatment May 18, 2015. Archived on April 19, 2014.
Interview
- Interview on France 24 (inaccessible link)
- 'Living Through the Terror' The Economist
- Interview on the BBC (inaccessible link)
- 'A mother never forgets by Jon Swain' The Sunday Times