Author · Suriname
Edgar Cairo
Died in 2000
Edgar Cairo was born on 7 May 1948 in Paramaribo, to parents who came from a former plantation in the Para district. A pupil of the brothers, then of general secondary education, he left for Amsterdam in 1968 to study Dutch and general literature. A poet, playwright, novelist, columnist for a Dutch daily, renowned reciter and painter, he forged a literary language of his own, nourished by the Dutch of Suriname and the oral traditions of the Creoles. He was found dead at home, in Amsterdam, on 16 November 2000.
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- NarrativeTemekoeEdgar Cairo · 1969not translated into EnglishLiterature