Laarwijk is a settlement and a former sugar plantation in the Commewijne District in Suriname . Laarwijk is situated along the Suriname River and can only be reached by boat (via Domburg ).
5-549: Eugène Constantijn Donders Drenthe (12 December 1925 in Laarwijk , Surinam – 30 March 2009 in Rotterdam , Netherlands ) was a prominent Surinamese poet and playwright . Drenthe was born in Laarwijk , Surinam , as an illegitimate child of Louise Drenthe and the local police officer who was also the parish clerk. Drenthe used to talk about it as if it was normal. This down-to-earth attitude also characterized his plays which showed
10-663: The Jules Wijdenbosch Bridge between Paramaribo and Meerzorg . After years of political prevarication in January 2010, Laarwijk has received a connection to the electricity grid. A cable is pulled from Domburg under the Suriname River . A generator which was installed just before the elections in 1996, had never produced a single kilowatt. 5°42′N 55°03′W / 5.700°N 55.050°W / 5.700; -55.050 This Suriname location article
15-587: The Netherlands in 1977. He died on 30 March 2009 in Rotterdam, at the age of 83. Laarwijk Laarwijk was founded in 1737. The government bought the plantation on 5 August 1899, and allocated it for small-scale agriculture. In 2020 plans were announced to build a bridge between Laarwijk and Domburg in order to develop the area, and relieve traffic congestion in Wanica and Commewijne . Traffic up to now has to use
20-560: The normal life of the Creoles in Suriname. The plays were successful, Geheim in het gezin was performed 57 times in Suriname. Drenthe produced 25 plays in all, which include Rudy (1959), Kedjaman (1969) and Djomp abra (1977). From 1968 onwards, the plays of Drenthe were being performed outside of Suriname. First to Curaçao , Aruba , and Puerto Rico , and later to the Netherlands. Drenthe
25-547: Was one of the founding members and first president of NAKS . NAKS was founded in 1948 as a social and cultural organization which promotes Afro-Surinamese culture and expression. In 1982 Drenthe started to publish poetry in Dutch and Sranan Tongo . His first publication was Skuma/Schuim (1982). Drenthe was offered a knighthood in the Order of Orange Nassau in 1972, but refused to accept it, because he had done nothing special. He moved to
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