Bea Vianen

Bea Vianen was born in 1935 in Paramaribo, to a father of mixed descent and a Hindustani mother. Trained at a teachers' college, she was a schoolteacher in Suriname then in the Netherlands, where she settled in 1957, mostly in Amsterdam; she then lived for some ten years in South America, in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Coming to writing through poetry, she published novels and collections and was for a long time the most widely read Surinamese woman writer. She died in 2019 in Paramaribo.

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• NovelMy Name Is SitaSarnami, haiBea Vianen · 1969Literature