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RNZ News
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Alice Austen: 33 Place Brugmann
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. Photo: Bloomsbury Publishing
Washington Post
23-03-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Playing hockey with Russians would be hypocrisy, not diplomacy
Last week, my daughter's school put on the play 'Girls in the Boat' by Alice Austen. Austen ran track at Oregon before studying law at Harvard, where she co-founded the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Correlatedly, this play is about sports and equality — specifically, the American women who persevered against sexism to compete in the first women's Olympic rowing competition at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games. They went on to become the most dominant Olympic sports team in U.S. history.
