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'''Astrid Heligonda Roemer''' ({{IPA-nl|ˈɑstrɪt ɦeːliˈɣɔndaː ˈrumər}}; born 24 April 1947 in [[Paramaribo]]) is a writer and teacher from [[Suriname]] living in the [[Netherlands]].<ref name="dbnl">{{cite web |url=http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=roem002 |title=Astrid Roemer |work=[[Digital Library for Dutch Literature]] |language=nl |access-date=15 December 2015}}</ref> The [[Dutch language]] author has published novels, drama and poetry, and will receive the [[P. C. Hooft Award]], a literary oeuvre award, in May 2016.
'''Astrid Heligonda Roemer''' ({{IPA-nl|ˈɑstrɪt ɦeːliˈɣɔndaː ˈrumər}}; born 24 April 1947 in [[Paramaribo]]) is a writer and teacher from [[Suriname]] living in the [[Netherlands]].<ref name="dbnl">{{cite web |url=http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=roem002 |title=Astrid Roemer |work=[[Digital Library for Dutch Literature]] |language=nl |access-date=15 December 2015}}</ref> The [[Dutch language]] author has published novels, drama and poetry, and has been selected to receive the [[P. C. Hooft Award]], a literary oeuvre award, in May 2016.{{Update after|2016|6|1}}


==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 13:54, 10 January 2016

Astrid Roemer
BornAstrid Heligonda Roemer
(1947-04-24) 24 April 1947 (age 77)
Paramaribo, Suriname
OccupationWriter
LanguageDutch
Notable awardsP. C. Hooft Award (2016)

Astrid Heligonda Roemer (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑstrɪt ɦeːliˈɣɔndaː ˈrumər]; born 24 April 1947 in Paramaribo) is a writer and teacher from Suriname living in the Netherlands.[1] The Dutch language author has published novels, drama and poetry, and has been selected to receive the P. C. Hooft Award, a literary oeuvre award, in May 2016.[needs update]

Biography

Roemer was born in Paramaribo and attended the city's Kweekschool, a teaching college, where in 1965, she was discovered as a poet.[2] She traveled to the Netherlands in the following year, and went back and forth between Suriname and the Netherlands (she lived in Den Haag for a while) until the 1970s.[3] In 1970, she published her first book of poetry, Sasa mijn actuele zijn. Her first novel, Neem mij terug Suriname (Take me back Suriname, 1974), was very successful in Suriname,[3] and was rewritten as Nergens ergens ("Nowhere somewhere", 1983).[4] She took up residence permanently in the Netherlands in 1975, after being fired from her teaching job for refusing to celebrate the Sinterklaas celebrations, which include a blackface character named Zwarte Piet.[2]

From the 1970s on, she was a prolific writer, publishing novels, drama, and poetry; her breakthrough in the Netherlands was the fragmentary novel Over de gekte van een vrouw ("On the madness of a woman"),[3] a novel investigating identity and the oppression of women,[5] which established her as a feminist writer and made her a role model for lesbians.[3] She spent some time in the city council of Den Haag for the GroenLinks party, in 1989, but left quickly after a dispute with the party.[2] Between 1996 and 1998, she published a trilogy which is now among the best-known of her works,[2] though no longer in print: Gewaagd leven (1996), Lijken op liefde (1997) en Was getekend (1998).[3] The novels were published together as Roemers drieling ("Roember's triplets", 2001).[5] The German translation of Lijken op liefde was awarded the LiBeratur Prize.[4]

From 2006 to 2009, Roemer lived in Suriname again. In her later years, she has published little. Her autobiography, Zolang ik leef ben ik niet dood ("As long as I'm living I'm not dead"), appeared in 2004, and a collection of love poems called Afnemend ("Diminishing") was published in 2012, in only 125 copies.[2] Roemer disappeared from the public eye, and traveled the world for fifteen years, with "cat, laptop, and backpack". Her first public appearance in a long time was planned for the 2015 premiere of De wereld heeft gezicht verloren, a biographical documentary by Cindy Kerseborn;[6] Kerseborn had looked for her on the island Skye but finally found her in a Belgian monastery. Roemer did not show up for the premiere but sent a text message urging people to love one another.[3]

Roemer won the P. C. Hooft Award for 2016,[7] over the favored candidate, Arnon Grunberg,[2] and becoming the first Caribbean author to win the award.[3] According to the jury, Roemer's novels are a literary imagination of the history of Suriname, a history that is not very well known in the Netherlands outside of the topics of slavery and the December murders but is "inextricably intertwined with the history of our country...and thus, by way of Roemer's unique oeuvre, with our literature". The jury added, "political engagement and literary experiment go hand in hand with Roemer".[5]

Bibliography

The works of Roemer based on her Digital Library for Dutch Literature profile:[1]

  • 1970: Sasa mijn actuele zijn (Sasa my present being)
  • 1974: Neem mij terug Suriname (Take me back Suriname)
  • 1975: De wereld heeft gezicht verloren (The world has lost face)
  • 1982: Over de gekte van een vrouw (On the madness of a woman)
  • 1983: Nergens ergens (Nowhere somewhere)
  • 1985: En wat dan nog?! (And so what?!)
  • 1985: Noordzee Blues (North Sea Blues)
  • 1987: Levenslang gedicht (Lifelong poem)
  • 1987: Waarom zou je huilen mijn lieve, lieve... (Why would you cry my dear, dear...)
  • 1987: Wat heet anders (What is so different)
  • 1988: De achtentwintigste dag (The twenty-eighth day)
  • 1988: De orde van de dag (The order of the day)
  • 1988: Het spoor van de jakhals (The trace of the jackall)
  • 1989: Alles wat gelukkig maakt (All that makes happy)
  • 1989: Oost West Holland Best (East West Holland Best)
  • 1990: Een naam voor de liefde (A name for love)
  • 1991: Dichter bij mij schreeuw ik (Closer to me I'll scream)
  • 1993: Niets wat pijn doet (Nothing that hurts)
  • 1996: Gewaagd leven (Daring life)
  • 1997: Lijken op liefde (Looks like love)
  • 1997: Suriname (Suriname)
  • 1998: Was getekend (Signed)
  • 2001: 'Miauw' ('Meow')
  • 2004: Zolang ik leef ben ik niet dood (As long as I live I'm not dead)
  • 2006: Over de gekte van een vrouw (On the madness of a woman)

References

  1. ^ a b "Astrid Roemer". Digital Library for Dutch Literature (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "P.C. Hooftprijs toegekend aan schrijfster Astrid Roemer". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). 15 December 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Fortuin, Arjen (15 December 2015). "P.C. Hooftprijs 2016 naar Astrid H. Roemer -". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  4. ^ a b Bel, Jacqueline; Vaessens, Thomas (2010). Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1880-2010: An Anthology. pp. 195–97. ISBN 9089641939.
  5. ^ a b c "P.C. Hooft-prijs 2016 voor Astrid Roemer". Het Parool (in Dutch). 15 December 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  6. ^ "Filmpremière: Astrid H. Roemer, De wereld heeft gezicht verloren" (in Dutch). Stichting Democratie en Media. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  7. ^ "P.C. Hooft-prijs 2016" (in Dutch). P. C. Hooft Award. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
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