Dorus Vrede

Dorus Monseigneur Vrede was born on 16 February 1949 in Lombe, on the Suriname River. Driven out in 1964 by the rising waters, he passed through the village of Nyun-Lombe and then reached Paramaribo, obtained the certificate of assistant teacher and taught in several schools in the interior, before heading the school at Yaw-Yaw from 1980 to 1985. He wrote in Saramaccan, Dutch and Ndyuka, used the ritual language of the Maroons and sang his poems to the guitar. Founder of a cultural association, captain of the village of Kapasikele, he died in Paramaribo on 29 March 2020.

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• Short storiesRond het sterfbed van mijn dorpDorus Vrede · 1987not translated into EnglishLiterature