Surinamese literature refers to the literature which is considered to belong to both the oral traditions as well as Surinamese written literature or people...

Surinamese culture has strong Asian, African and European influences. The population is mainly composed of the contribution of people from India, Africa...

Commons has media related to Writers from Suriname. A list of notable Surinamese writers: Clark Accord Willy Alberga Karin Amatmoekrim Bernardo Ashetu...

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an English-based creole language, is a widely used lingua franca. Most Surinamese are descendants of slaves and indentured labourers brought from Africa...

Sranan Tongo (Sranantongo "Surinamese tongue", Sranan, Sranang, Surinamese Creole) is an English-based creole language that is spoken as a lingua franca...

The Surinamese Interior War (Dutch: Binnenlandse Oorlog) was a civil war waged in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname between 1986 and 1992. It was fought...

typically call-and-response, and it is accompanied by all kinds of typical Surinamese percussion, such as the skratji. Like many South American music genres...

without subtitles on Surinamese-Javanese television channels. In 1986, the Surinamese government adopted an official spelling for Surinamese-Javanese. It is...

(born 25 December 1976) is a Surinamese writer. She has written five novels and won the 2009 Black Magic Woman Literature Prize for Titus and was awarded...

Brunswijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɔni ˈbrʏnsʋɛik]; born 7 March 1961) is a Surinamese politician, businessman, former rebel leader, footballer and convicted...

Cynthia Henri McLeod (née Ferrier; born 4 October 1936) is a Surinamese novelist known for her historic novels and whose debut novel instantly made her...

(A History of Surinamese Literature), published in two volumes in 2003. In 1400 pages it tells the history of oral and written literatures of Suriname....

in Totness, Surinam – 19 December 2018 in Paramaribo, Suriname) was a Surinamese poet. He mainly wrote poetry in Sranan Tongo, and is considered one of...

father, a teacher, provided her with early exposure to Dutch and Surinamese literature, and she began writing at a young age. As a young woman, she worked...

73, British poet, writer, and translator, cancer. Stanley Rensch, 84, Surinamese Maroon and human rights activist, denounced the Moiwana massacre. Indra...

to the English anthology of Surinamese literature Diversity is Power (2007). Surinamese literature Caribbean literature Crawford, Sharon (16 January...

creating a Chinese Surinamese population. From 1873 to 1916, many laborers were imported from India, creating the Indo-Surinamese. After 1916, many laborers...

string (2013). When asked whether de Kom considered his writings Surinamese literature, de Kom replied that he could not answer that; he is just as much...

pronunciation: [ˈɑstrɪt ɦeːliˈɣɔndaː ˈrumər]; born 27 April 1947) is a Surinamese-Dutch writer and teacher. The Dutch-language author has published novels...

Yasmine Amores (born Asha Radjkoemar; 8 March 1965 – 4 August 2021) was a Surinamese-Dutch poet, writer, and painter. She wrote under the pen name Cándani...

Suriname (NPS) in the government of Henck Arron. He was disposed by the 1980 Surinamese coup d'état. Venetiaan decided to teach at the Anton de Kom University...

Laarwijk, Surinam – 30 March 2009 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) was a prominent Surinamese poet and playwright. Drenthe was born in Laarwijk, Surinam, as an illegitimate...

Historian Bert Koene writes, The Jews were a stabilizing factor in the Surinamese community. They had the mentality of long-term residents, unlike most...

a persiflage on Dikkie Dik (in fact it's a parody of the narrator of Surinamese origin Rudy Kuhn, who read in the program Sesame Street from Dikkie Dik...

experimented with the rinds of the local citrus fruit known as laraha. Surinamese, Chinese, Indonesian, Indian and Dutch culinary influences also abound...

December 1953) is a Dutch writer of Surinamese origin. She is considered a pioneer of Surinamese lesbian literature. Werners was born on 25 December 1953...

Petronella Breinburg (1927 – 5 November 2019) was a Surinamese British author, playwright and professor and one of the first black British authors to write...

borders the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the Surinamese district of Coronie to the east, the Surinamese district of Sipaliwini to the south and the region...

the north, French Guiana to the east, the Surinamese district of Sipaliwini to the south, and the Surinamese districts of Commewijne and Para to the west...