Literary Monday - Jean-Marie JEM Backes & Raymond Boon
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Daily life in the rearview mirror:
In his reports, JEM travels by public transport, drinks only mineral water, and always seeks that "certain something".
This time, the author ventured into archives, communities, and libraries. He met local historians and people with stories to tell. The daily life of the 1960s is at the heart of this book.
Jean-Marie JEM Backes, born in 1953, spent his first months in his parents' flower shop in Oberkorn. He grew up in the shadow of the Differdange HADIR factory, attended primary school in Fousbann, and later secondary school in Pétange. He lived in the center of the country and now resides in the southwest of the Grand Duchy. A father of two adult children and a proud grandfather of a girl, he worked in trade, was a local correspondent for the Tageblatt for decades, and later became a full-time journalist in the Tageblatt's local newsroom.
Raymond Boon studied law at the University of Luxembourg and the Université Paris I, worked as a lawyer at the Court of Justice in Luxembourg, and is currently an independent consultant. From a family of fruit and vegetable merchants, Raymond Boon wrote "The Heirs of Lucifer", a novel with autobiographical tendencies depicting the story of the Noob family from Zolwer, who housed valuable artworks during World War II that a German had acquired. This put the family in the sights of three international criminal organizations looking for rare specimens of "degenerate art".
(Source: Luxemburger Autorenlexikon by CNL)
Where does it take place?
Ville de Differdange
Aalt Stadhaus; 38 avenue Charlotte
L-4530 Differdange
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