Curriculum Violette

'Curriculum Violette' is poet and biographer Robert Crawford's commemoration of Violette Szabo (1921-45), the remarkable French-born British agent who fought alongside members of the Resistance in wartime France and who died at Ravensbruck concentration camp. Published to mark the centenary of her birth, 'Curriculum Violette' uses familiar forms - most obviously that of the CV - to present Violette Szabo's multifaceted life in England, France, Scotland, and Germany. Pithily and arrestingly, it sums up a life whose insistent humanity shines through the timetabled, mechanical systems of military and civilian life, and even through the bureaucracy of death.'

The work is published in English/French parallel text.