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The Girl With the Leica

The story of the first female war photographer: Gerda Taro (partner of Robert Capa)

In this video, German Italian author Helena Janeczek talks about her historical fiction novel, The Girl With the Leica (Europa Editions, 2019), translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein, for which she won the Strega Prize. The book centers on the life of Gerda Taro, who documented the Spanish Civil War with photographer Robert Capa and was tragically the first woman photojournalist to die on the battlefield.

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Helena Janeczek
The Girl With the Leica
2019
Europa Editions
Ann Goldstein
historical fiction
historical novel
Strega Prize

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