Marylin Simons

Marylin Simons (born 16 October 1959) is a Surinamese writer and columnist. She is best known for In naam van God en Obia, for which she was awarded the , and her youth book Carrousel (2003).

Biography Marilyn Simons was born on 16 October 1959 in Paramaribo, Suriname. She went to the Netherlands to study higher vocational education. After graduating, she returned to Suriname in 1982.

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 Kwaku Literature Prize, a former stimulus prize for Surinamese authors. 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.

Simons writes stories on breaking taboos and her characters show the diversity in Surinamese Dutch, which alternates from Sranan Tongo to "Algemeen Beschaafd Nederlands", the old term for posh civilized Dutch.