Julian With

Julian Samuel With was born on 16 October 1954 in Ganzee, a Saramaka village in the district of Brokopondo, later submerged by a reservoir lake. He left for the Netherlands in 1975, obtained a teaching diploma in Utrecht in 1976, then completed psychology studies in the same city in 1982. A critic and polemicist, he defended the rights of the Maroons, published five collections of poems and ran reading programmes for children, in the Netherlands and then in the interior of Suriname. Appointed an officer of the Order of the Palms in 2023, he died in Nieuwegein on 19 June 2024.

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• NarrativeJa, ik ben een MarronJulian With · 1974not translated into EnglishLiterature