Marylin Simons
{{Short description|Surinamese writer}}
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| birth_place = Paramaribo, Surinam
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| occupation = Writer, columnist
| nationality = Suriname
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| notable_works = In naam van God en Obia (2002)
Carrousel (2003)
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Marylin Simons (16 October 1959{{cite web|url=https://www.surinameview.com/sranan/literatuur/s-z/marylin-simons/|title=Marylin Simons|access-date=12 March 2021|language=nl|website=Suriname View|archive-date=23 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023202547/https://www.surinameview.com/sranan/literatuur/s-z/marylin-simons/|url-status=live}}) is a Surinamese writer and columnist. She is best known for In naam van God en Obia (2002) for which she was awarded the {{ill|Kwaku Literature Prize|nl|Kwakoe Literatuurprijs}},{{cite web|url=https://www.suriname.nu/701vips/schrijver11.html|title=Marilyn Simons|website=Suriname.nu|access-date=12 March 2021|language=nl|archive-date=20 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020135947/https://suriname.nu/701vips/schrijver11.html|url-status=live}} and her youth book Carrousel (2003).{{cite magazine|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_oso001200401_01/_oso001200401_01_0012.php|title=Marylin Simons|magazine=OSO|page=117|series=OSO. Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse taalkunde, letterkunde en geschiedenis|year=2003|language=nl|access-date=12 March 2021|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183256/https://dbnl.org/tekst/_oso001200401_01/_oso001200401_01_0012.php|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://werkgroepcaraibischeletteren.nl/avonturen-met-jeugdboeken/|title=Avonturen met jeugdboeken|website=Werkgroup Caraibische Letteren|access-date=12 March 2021|language=nl|archive-date=26 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026125004/https://werkgroepcaraibischeletteren.nl/avonturen-met-jeugdboeken/|url-status=live}}
Biography
Marilyn Simons was born on 16 October 1959 in Paramaribo. She went to the Netherlands to study higher vocational education.{{cite web|url=https://www.writersunlimited.nl/en/participant/marylin-simons|title=Marylin Simons|website=Writers Unlimited|access-date=12 March 2021|archive-date=26 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926223722/https://www.writersunlimited.nl/en/participant/marylin-simons|url-status=live}} After graduating, she returned to Suriname in 1982.
Simons started to work as a columnist for the magazine De Tweede Ronde, and the newspaper De Ware Tijd. Simons made her literary debut in 2001, at De Tweede Ronde, and won the story writing contest for the 700th edition of De Ware Tijd Literair.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_voo013201101_01/_voo013201101_01_0009.php|title='Het literair canon'|author=Michiel van Kempen|magazine=Vooys |issue=29 |year=2011|language=nl|page=85|access-date=2021-03-12|archive-date=2021-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127141044/https://dbnl.org/tekst/_voo013201101_01/_voo013201101_01_0009.php|url-status=live}}
In 2002, Simons wrote In naam van God en Obia (In name of God and Obia), a family drama, for which she was awarded the {{ill|Kwaku Literature Prize|nl|Kwakoe Literatuurprijs}} a former stimulus prize for Surinamese authors. In 2003,{{cite web|url=https://www.dbnl.org/titels/titel.php?id=simo028carr01|title=Carrousel|website=Digital Library for Dutch Literature|access-date=12 March 2021|language=nl|archive-date=15 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415031803/https://www.dbnl.org/titels/titel.php?id=simo028carr01|url-status=live}} she wrote Carrousel which was originally published by Okopipi in Paramaribo, but has become better known as Koorddansers (2006), an extended republication by the Dutch publisher De Geus. The book is intended for both adults and youths. In 2004, Simons released Anansi Dala, a picture book about the spider Anansi.{{cite web|url=https://werkgroepcaraibischeletteren.nl/dieren-in-de-surinaamse-kinderliteratuur-info-voor-jeugdbegeleiders/|title=Dieren in de Surinaamse kinderliteratuur: info voor jeugdbegeleiders|website=Werkgroep Caraibische Letteren|access-date=12 March 2021|language=nl|archive-date=14 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514082622/https://werkgroepcaraibischeletteren.nl/dieren-in-de-surinaamse-kinderliteratuur-info-voor-jeugdbegeleiders/|url-status=live}}
A notable feature of her stories, is the tendency to break taboos, and that the characters tend to show the diversity in Surinamese Dutch which alternates from Sranan Tongo to "Algemeen Beschaafd Nederlands", the old term for posh civilized Dutch.
References
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External links
- [https://www.dbnl.org/titels/titel.php?id=simo028carr01 Carrousel] Available for free download at the Digital Library for Dutch Literature (in Dutch)
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Category:Writers from Paramaribo
Category:Surinamese women writers
Category:Surinamese women children's writers