In 2005 Alice Austen traded in her career as a lawyer to focus on her love of writing. And it paid off, now an award-winning screenwriter, producer and playwright, perhaps best known for writing and producing the critically acclaimed 2019 film Give Me Liberty. Austen also co-founded the Harvard Human Rights Journal and was the first American to receive a fellowship to the European Court of Human Rights.
Her latest work, 33 Place Brugmann is her debut novel.
It's a thoughtful historical debut set in Second World War Brussels as the Nazis invade Belgium. The novel's focus is on the inhabitants of a large apartment building. Despite being a work of fiction, the house was not only a real place, but one Alice herself lived in.
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