Denise Affonço was born and brought up in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Her mother was Vietnamese and her father French. When the Khmer Rouge seized power in April 1975 her peaceful life was torn apart. She was deported with her husband, a communist idealist, and their two children to the countryside, where her husband was taken away by the Khmer Rouge and never seen again, and her daughter died of starvation. In 1979, four hellish years were brought to an end when the Vietnamese invaded. Today, Denise is remarried, lives in Paris and works at the EU's Institute for Security Studies.
Reportage Press is a new publishing house specialising in books on foreign affairs or set in foreign countries; non-fiction, fiction, essays, travel books, old travel memoirs, or just books written from a stranger’s view.
Daniela Norris and Shireen Anabtawi in discussion - October 12th, London Jewish Cultural Centre
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