,
Astrid H. Roemer

Astrid H. Roemer’s Followers (52)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Astrid H. Roemer


Born
in Paramaribo, Suriname
April 27, 1947

Genre


Astrid Heligonda Roemer (Paramaribo, 27 april 1947) is een Surinaams schrijfster, die in 1966 naar Nederland vertrok, maar terugkeerde naar haar geboorteland om daar te werken als onderwijzeres. In 1975 vestigde zij zich opnieuw in Nederland. Van 2006 tot 2009 woonde zij opnieuw in haar geboorteland.

Zij debuteerde in 1970 onder het pseudoniem Zamani met de poëziebundel Sasa Mijn actuele zijn. De in 1974 verschenen roman Neem mij terug Suriname werd in Suriname uitermate populair. Hij geeft een klassieke emigrantenthematiek: de ontheemding van een Surinamer in Nederland en zijn terugverlangen. Artistiek is het boek niet geslaagd, reden waarom Roemer het herschreef tot Nergens ergens (1983). De novelle Waarom zou je huilen, mijn lieve, lieve.
...more

Average rating: 3.33 · 1,507 ratings · 315 reviews · 35 distinct worksSimilar authors
On a Woman's Madness

by
3.22 avg rating — 702 ratings — published 1982 — 14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Off-White

3.57 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
DealersDochter

3.08 avg rating — 143 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Neem mij terug, Suriname

by
3.17 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Gewaagd leven (Roemers drie...

3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1996
Rate this book
Clear rating
Olga en haar driekwartsmaten

3.06 avg rating — 32 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Lijken op liefde (Roemers d...

3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Onmogelijk moederland [Gewa...

4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Nergens Ergens

3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Liefde in tijden van gebrek

3.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Astrid H. Roemer…
Gewaagd leven Lijken op liefde Was Getekend Onmogelijk moederland [Gewa...
(4 books)
by
3.87 avg rating — 77 ratings

Quotes by Astrid H. Roemer  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“In any case, all the memories of those years full of life will soon fade; disease doesn't spare your memories; they will die the very instant she does.”
Astrid H. Roemer, Gebroken wit

“My parents had a proverb hanging above their bed: Those who cannot build castles in the air are not entitled to happiness. And they were the happiest couple I know!” she reassured me.
She held the palms of my hands to her face for a few minutes. When she hailed a taxi, she put me in the backseat and bid farewell with eyes full of castles in the air.”
Astrid H. Roemer, On a Woman's Madness

“Racial hatred is unpredictable and unfathomable, and it’s there when you least expect it, and it’s deadlier than sudden blows to your naked soul. I was on my guard. I simply refused to form any relationships with white people. As far as I was concerned, they could take out their hate on the stereotype in their heads.”
Astrid H. Roemer, On a Woman's Madness

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
Netherlands & Fla...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Winter 2014 - 2015 - Rondje om de wereld (11) 65 138 Mar 20, 2015 10:04AM  
Read Women: This topic has been closed to new comments. * Read Around the World Challenge 45 512 Jan 24, 2020 12:23AM  
Read Women: Sanne's read around the world challenge 6 87 Jun 29, 2020 10:29AM  
Read Women: * 2021 Women in Translation Challenge 33 128 Jan 30, 2021 01:25PM  


Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Astrid to Goodreads.