Cynthia McLeod

Cynthia McLeod, née Ferrier, was born on 4 October 1936 in Paramaribo; her father, Johan Ferrier, was the first president of Suriname. Trained in the Netherlands, she returned in 1962, studied Dutch and taught it at a secondary school in Paramaribo from 1969 to 1978. She then followed her husband, an ambassador, to Venezuela, Belgium and the United States, and carried out long research in the archives of The Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Emmerich and Cologne. Back in the country in 1986, an author of historical novels on the slave-owning past, she received a Rotary prize for her work in 2010.

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• NovelThe Cost of SugarHoe duur was de suikerCynthia McLeod · 1987Literature