Martinus Haridat Lutchman (Shrinivāsi)

Martinus Haridat Lutchman, who published under the name Shrinivāsi, was born in 1926 on the Vaderzorg plantation, at Kwatta, into a Catholic Hindustani family. A schoolteacher in Paramaribo and in the Nickerie district, he left in 1951 for Curaçao, where he obtained his teaching diploma, then devoted himself entirely to literature from 1967. He wrote mainly in Dutch, but also in Hindi and Sarnami, and was called the poet of reconciliation. He died in 2019 in Curaçao.

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• PoetryOm de zonMartinus Haridat Lutchman (Shrinivāsi) · 1972not translated into EnglishLiterature