Henna Goudzand Nahar

Henna Goudzand Nahar (born December 28, 1953) is a Surinamese fiction writer and journalist. She has written under the pen names Amber and Amber Nahar.

Biography Henna Goudzand Nahar was born in Paramaribo, Suriname, in 1953. She describes herself as being of African descent, with some Chinese, European, Jewish, and Indigenous ancestry.

Goudzand Nahar has published stories in the Surinamese women's magazine Brasa, as well as in the publications Preludium (1988), De Gids (1990), and De Groene Amsterdammer (1992). Her debut novel, Hele dagen in de regen, was published in 2005, followed by Over het zoute water (2015) and De geur van bruine bonen (2020). Her most recent children's book, Suikerland (2023), tells the history of the Atlantic slave trade in Suriname.