Sranan Tongo is an English-based creole language that is spoken as a lingua franca by approximately 550,000 people in Suriname.
Carice Anouk van Houten is a Dutch actress and singer. Her first leading role in the television film Suzy Q (1999) won her the Golden Calf for Best Acting in a Television Drama; two years later, she won the Golden Calf for Best Actress for Miss Minoes (2001).
Rosemary Sullivan is a Canadian poet, biographer, and anthologist. She is also a professor emerita at University of Toronto.
Michaël Henricus Gertrudis (Michiel) van Kempen is a Dutch writer, art historian and literary critic. He has written novels, short stories, essays, travel literature and scenarios. He was the compiler of a huge range of anthologies of Dutch-Caribbean literature and wrote an extensive history of the literature of Suriname, in two volumes.
Ruth Jacott is a Surinamese-Dutch singer.
Surinamese people are people who identify with the country of Suriname. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Surinamese, several of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Surinamese.
Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout was a Surinamese poet and an eminent community leader who fought for acknowledgement of Sranan and of the Afro-Surinamese culture.
Astrid Heligonda Roemer is a Surinamese-Dutch writer and teacher. The Dutch-language author has published novels, drama and poetry, and in December 2015 was announced as the winner of the P. C. Hooft Award, considered the most important literary prize in the Netherlands and Belgium, which was presented in May 2016.
Beatrice Sylvia Vianen was a Surinamese writer and poet who goes by the name Bea Vianen. Bea Vianen was the first Surinamese woman who had a book published by a Dutch publishing house (Querido).
Hester Knibbe is a Dutch poet.
Eva Gerlach is a Dutch poet. She also writes under the name Margaret Dijkstra.
Ismene Shakuntal Debi Krishnadath is a Surinamese writer.
Marijke Hanegraaf is a Dutch poet. Since 1997, she has lived in Nijmegen; she was the city’s official poet in 2013 and 2014.
Michaël Arnoldus Slory was a Surinamese poet. He mainly wrote poetry in Sranan Tongo, and is considered one of the most important poets in Sranan Tongo. He also published in Dutch, English and Spanish
Jeane Sophie Everdine Redmond was a Surinamese physician and activist.
Marylin Simons is a Surinamese writer and columnist. She is best known for In naam van God en Obia (2002) for which she was awarded the Kwaku Literature Prize, and her youth book Carrousel (2003).
Els Moor was a Dutch-born Surinamese educator, editor and book publisher. She is best known for Fa yu e tron leisibakru, a literary education method for secondary education. Moor was the chief editor of De Ware Tijd Literair, and founder of the Okopipi publishing house.
The statue of Kwakoe in the Surinames capital Paramaribo is a monument commemorating the abolition of slavery. It was made by the sculptor Jozef Klas.
Christiaan Hendrik "Hein" Eersel was a Surinamese linguist and cultural researcher.
Guno Hoen was a Surinamese football player, sports journalist, and sports historian. Hoen has played for S.V. Voorwaarts, Politie Voetbal Vereniging, and the Suriname national team. As a footballer, he specialised in penalties and only missed once.
