26/11/2024
Sad farewell to a dear Lilliput author Judith Mok, who died on the morning of Monday 26th with her husband writer Michael O’Loughlin keeping vigil. She was a doughty soul and personality, who bore her cancer fearlessly.
Her book The State of Dark, on Holland’s Holocaust victims that numbered hundreds of her family members, shone a necessary light on her home country during the war - a radiance that extended to her career as singer and performer. It was launched by John Banville at Dublin’s Museum of Modern Literature in the summer of 2022 and constitutes her greatest legacy in bearing witness to the horrors of our recent past.
Our thoughts with Michael and their daughter Saar. And gratitude for the example of a life fully lived.
Antony Farrell
Publisher
Pictured is Judith in 2023 during a visit to the National Holocaust Names Memorial in Amsterdam, where the names of her family members are etched.
