Book’s subject, Lien de Jong, 85, who survived second world war ordeal, attends ceremony
The 85-year-old Lien de Jong, whose harrowing childhood living in hiding with a Dutch foster family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands is pieced together in Bart van Es’s biography The Cut Out Girl, was at the Costa awards on Tuesday to watch the Oxford academic collect the £30,000 Costa book of the year award for a book telling the story of her life, which judges called “incredibly important”.
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