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LITRATURE
IN THE
FIELD OF LITERATURE, POETRY IS PROBABLY MORE PROMINENT THAN
PROSE. THE MULTILINGUAL SOCIETY OF SURINAME HAS BROUGHT FORTH
MANY POETIC ARTISTS. SOMETIMES THEY USE SRANAN TONGO, THE
LANGUAGE EVERYBODY IN SURINAME SPEAKS, DUTCH, WHICH STILL IS THE
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IN SURINAME, OR VERY OFTEN ONE OF THE
LANGUAGES OF THE ETNIC GROUP THEY BELONG TO.
ONE OF THE SURINAME POETS ALSO WELL KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE
CARIBBEAN, IS THE LATE DOBRU, WHOSE REAL NAME WAS ROBIN RAVALES.
DOBRU’S BEST KNOWN POEM, ‘WAN BON’ (TRANSLATED ‘ONE TREE’),
SYMBOLIZES THE MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE OF SURINAME IN ONE NATION.
SOME OTHER FAMOUS AUTHORS FROM SURINAME ARE SHRINIVASI, BEA
VIANEN, TREFOSSA, JOHANNA SCHOUTEN – ELSENHOUT, CYNTHIA MAC
LEOD, JOHN DE BYE, GERRIT BARRON, ISMENE KRISHNADATH AND CLARK
ACCORD.
CYNTHIA MAC LEOD AND JOHN DE BYE ARE WELL KNOWN FOR THEIR
FASCINATING HISTORICAL NOVELS . GERRIT BARRON AND ISMENE
KRISHNADATH ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR LITERATURE FOR YOUNG CARIBBEAN
PEOPLE, WHILE CLARK ACCORD IS VERY POPULAR IN HOLLAND (THE
NETHERLANDS), WHERE HE LIVES.
MANY SURINAME WRITERS AND POETS ARE BUNDLED IN A GROUP CALLED
SCHRIJVERSGROEP ’77, TRANSLATED AS ‘WRITERS GROUP ’77’.
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