Karin Amatmoekrim

Karin Amatmoekrim is a Surinamese-Dutch writer. She has published six novels and multiple short stories. Her 2013 novel De man van veel (Anton de Kom—The Man of Many), released as a new edition in 2021 with a foreword by Astrid Roemer, is a work of biographical fiction focusing on the life of the Surinamese intellectual Anton de Kom, a human rights activist and resistance fighter against Dutch colonialism.