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Be strong like Maggy (Swiss Press Text 2025, by Urs Mannhart) - Swiss Press Award

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Be strong like Maggy

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2025

Urs Mannhart

She lost her parents as a child, lived on the streets, was unable to attend school, soon lost her sister to malaria, was considered scum in poverty-stricken Kenya, and was abandoned by men, especially when she became pregnant. And yet Maggy didn't give up.

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Urs Mannhart / Swiss Press Award

Urs Mannhart

Schriftsteller und Biolandwirt, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1975

Ich habe, nach einem abgebrochenen Studium, als Velokurier, als Nachtwächter und in der Landwirtschaft gearbeitet. Am Schreibtisch und unterwegs sind während dessen drei Romane und ein Dutzend Reportagen entstanden.

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