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  • NarrativeSkrekiboekoeJohannes King · 1886not translated into EnglishConverted by visions, a Maroon preacher who came late to writing sets down on paper, in the Creole language of the country, what the forest showed him.Literature
  • NovelBruine Mina de koto-missiJ. G. Spalburg · 1913not translated into EnglishA schoolteacher of the Moravian mission, staying in the Netherlands, writes for Paramaribo an account of the Creole customs of the city.Literature
  • PoetryMatrozenrozenG. G. T. Rustwijk · 1915not translated into EnglishWhen plant diseases ruin the colony's agriculture, a painter and man of the theatre writes comic or indignant verses for festive evenings.Literature
  • NovelEen beschavingswerkRichard O'Ferrall · 1923not translated into EnglishThe colony has just abandoned, in the middle of the forest, the railway that was meant to open up the interior, and a notable of Paramaribo draws a satire from it.Literature
  • NovelZuid-Zuid-WestAlbert Helman · 1926not translated into EnglishA young Surinamese settled in Holland tells his friends at a Catholic review about his country, and they urge him to put his stories down in writing.Literature
  • EssayWe Slaves of SurinameWij slaven van SurinameAnton de Kom · 1934Expelled without trial from his native colony, an anticolonial activist completes in the Netherlands a book on the colonial past as seen by the enslaved.Literature
  • PoetryTrotjiHenri Frans de Ziel (Trefossa) · 1957not translated into EnglishWhile the school still forbids the country's Creole language, a schoolteacher in Paramaribo proves that it can serve learned poetry.Literature
  • PoetrySarka / Bittere strijdMichaël Slory · 1961not translated into EnglishThe first book in Sranan by a militant poet of Suriname, a collection of anticolonial struggle.Literature
  • NarrativeTemekoeEdgar Cairo · 1969not translated into EnglishA twenty-year-old student, having left for Amsterdam, publishes at home a first narrative written in the Creole language of the street.Literature
  • NovelMy Name Is SitaSarnami, haiBea Vianen · 1969The portrait of a Hindustani adolescent girl in Suriname, torn between her family and her desire for freedom.Literature
  • PoetryOm de zonMartinus Haridat Lutchman (Shrinivāsi) · 1972not translated into EnglishThe largest collection of the great Hindustani poet of Suriname, a love journey from India to the Caribbean.Literature
  • NarrativeJa, ik ben een MarronJulian With · 1974not translated into EnglishOn the eve of independence, a young man born in a Maroon village claims for his people a place in the nation taking shape.Literature
  • CinemaWan PipelPim de la Parra · 1976A year after independence, a filmmaker born in Paramaribo shoots the first feature-length fiction film of the new state.Cinema
  • NovelOn a Woman's MadnessOver de gekte van een vrouwAstrid Roemer · 1982The novel that revealed Suriname's greatest novelist to the Netherlands, the story of a woman who chooses her freedom.Literature
  • Short storiesRond het sterfbed van mijn dorpDorus Vrede · 1987not translated into EnglishMore than twenty years after the reservoir lake drowned the Saramaka villages, one of the displaced people tells of the forced departure.Literature
  • NovelThe Cost of SugarHoe duur was de suikerCynthia McLeod · 1987A former teacher of Dutch draws from the colonial archives a novel about the time when sugar made the country's fortune.Literature