Maria Bouroncle is the featured author at Book Talk in Bishop Hill on Saturday, October 14, 2023, at 1 PM in the Steeple Building Museum. Maria Bouroncle is a Swedish Author and an economist by profession. She spent over 25 years in the field of International Development before publishing her first novel in 2018. Her book, It Came to Me on a Whim, has been translated into several languages and is used on the Scandinavian Crime Literature course at UCLA. Maria Bouroncle currently lives in Washington D.C. Maria’s first book tells the story about her great-aunt who killed her three children when she was 27 in 1929.
Through exhaustive research, she has strived to shed light on what led up to this tragedy, which had been a tightly guarded family secret for over seventy years. At the program, Maria will also show film director Carl Eneroth’s short documentary ”The Child Murderess in Vesene”, based on her book. It was the winner of ”Best Short Documentary” in London, New Jersey and Miami in 2021. The program is free to the public. Steeple Building Museum is located at 103 North Bishop Hill State. Contact the BHHA at 309-927-3899 or at [email protected] for more details. Sponsored by the Bishop Hill Heritage Association and the Bill and Susan Sherrard Foundation.