Karin Amatmoekrim


Karin Amatmoekrim is a Surinamese writer. She has written five novels and won the 2009 Black Magic Woman Literature Prize for Titus.

Biography

Karin Amatmoekrim was born on 25 December 1976 in Paramaribo, Suriname. In 1981, she emigrated from Suriname to the Netherlands and grew up in IJmuiden. She attended the Gymnasium in Velsen, and then studied Modern Literature at the University of Amsterdam, graduating with a thesis on "The ethnicity in Literature in Suriname".
In 2004, she published her first novel, Het knipperleven, which was enthusiastically received by the press. In 2006, it was followed by Wanneer wij samen zijn, a novel based on the story of several generations of the Amatmoekrim family. In 2009 appeared the novel Titus. Amatmoekrim has also published short stories in De Groene Amsterdammer and Vrij Nederland.
In 2009, she was the first recipient of the Black Magic Woman Literature Prize for her novel Titus.
Karin is married to Jesse Smit, the founder of the brand FreshCotton. She has two children, Sumina Smit and Lee Benjamin Smit.