Astrid Roemer

Astrid Roemer was born in 1947 in Paramaribo. She began a teacher training in Suriname, which she completed in the Netherlands, where she went in 1966; she settled there for good in 1975 and taught there. She published in 1970, under the name Zamani, a first collection of poems, then novels, short stories and plays. She received the P. C. Hooft Prize in 2016, then in 2021 the Prize for Dutch Literature, the first among the writers of Suriname. She died in 2026 in Paramaribo.

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• NovelOn a Woman's MadnessOver de gekte van een vrouwAstrid Roemer · 1982Literature