Michaël Slory

Michaël Slory was born in 1935 at Totness, the chief town of the Coronie district. After secondary studies in Paramaribo, he left at the end of the fifties for the Netherlands, where he studied Spanish, then returned to Paramaribo in 1970. He wrote mainly in Sranan, but also in Dutch and Spanish, and published more than thirty collections, most of them at his own expense. He received the Governor Currie Prize in 1974, with Shrinivāsi. He died in 2018 in Paramaribo.

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• PoetrySarka / Bittere strijdMichaël Slory · 1961not translated into EnglishLiterature