Béatrix Beck
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Emerging from a literary family in Switzerland, she was the daughter of poet Christian Beck and later served as André Gide’s secretary, a role that shaped her literary voice and prompted her to explore personal trauma, wartime experience and poverty in her writing. Her debut novel appeared in the late 1940s, and she quickly gained prominence when her 1952 work, published in French as Léon Morin, p…
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