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Frank Martinus Arion Curaçao 17 Dec. 1936 • Antillean-Dutch poet-novelist full text search: the ledge - flash version* *	Frank Martinus Arion was born in Curaçao in 1936 as Frank Efraim Martinus. He came to Holland in 1955 to study Dutch literature and returned to Curaçao in 1981. Arion now heads the Curaçao Language Institute, which promotes the use and recognition of Papiamento, a pidgin language of the Antilles.	Dubbelspel ('Double Play', 1973), Afscheid van de koningin ('Farewell to the Queen', 1975) and Nobele wilden ('Noble Savages', 1979) are Arion’s novels to date. In 1995 he made a literary comeback with the new novel De laatste vrijheid ('The Final Freedom').
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ON FRANK MARTINUS ARION'S BOOKSHELF The End of the Affair Graham Greene, 1951 Novel about adultery which Arion says influenced him more than any other book, because of all the surprising plot-twists. Miguel Street V.S. Naipaul, 1959 Life in Trinidad is described through the eyes of a 'street rab' in Miguel Street. The happy-go-lucky community abounds in eccentric characters. See also: A House for Mr Biswas. A House for Mr Biswas V.S. Naipaul, 1961 A journalist in Trinidad struggles to break free from his Hindu inlaws. See also: Miguel Street. Winner Take Nothing Ernest Hemingway, 1933 Fourteen stories that focus on the trying relationship between macho-men and courageous women. See also: Men Without Women. Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway, 1927 Hemingway's men are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness unsoftened by woman's hand. See also: Winner Take Nothing. My Sister, the Negro Cola Debrot, 1935 An Antillean man discovers that his childhood sweetheart is his father's illegitimate daughter... One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez, 1967 This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendías family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an iguana in a woman's womb. Weekend Pilgrimage Tip Marugg, 1957 A solitary drinker on Curaçao goes through various stages of mind expansion and 'mind constriction'. Rock of Offense Boeli van Leeuwen, 1959 The biography of a young man from Curaçao, reconstructed from papers found after his death as a result of diving for treasure at the bottom of a Venezuelan river. Palace of the Peacock Wilson Harris, 1960 Part I of The Guyana Quartet, experimental prose by British Guiana-born Wilson Harris. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands Jorge Amado, 1966 An attractive widow in a ménage à trois with a boring apothecary and her dead husband.	BOOKS BY FRANK MARTINUS ARION: Double Play: The Story of an Amazing World Record 1973 A politically charged novel about a memorable game of dominoes on colonial Curaçao lays bare a mozaic of adultery and machination.	WHAT TO READ AFTER DOUBLE PLAY: THE STORY OF AN AMAZING WORLD RECORD? OTHER CARIBBEAN CLASSICS Windward Heights Maryse Condé, 1995 Wuthering Heights in Guadaloupe. A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes, 1929 English schoolchildren are kidnapped by pirates. Oroonoko Aphra Behn, 1688 An African slave leads a revolt in (English) Surinam. Rum Island S. Vestdijk, 1940 Man in 18th-century Jamaica investigates fraud and his father's murder. Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys, 1966 An account of the life of Antoinette Cosway, the fictional character who becomes the madwoman in the attic in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. CARIBBEAN, POSTCOLONIAL, AND POLITICAL In the Castle of My Skin George Lamming, 1953 A man grows up politically aware in Barbados. [Atman] Leo Ferrier, 1968 Psychological novel about young Creoles and Hindustanis growing up in Surinam. Texaco Patrick Chamoiseau, 1992 Historical epic about the painful history of Martinique. [Was getekend] Astrid Roemer, 1998 Part III of a trilogy about the relationship between The Netherlands and Surinam. BRAVE WOMEN AND MACHO MEN Dr No Ian Fleming, 1958 James Bond fights mad scientist in Jamaica. Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat, 1994 Three generations of women in Haiti and New York. [De koningin van Paramaribo] Clark Accord, 1999 The story of Maxi Linder, whore and philanthropist. OTHER CARIBBEAN CLASSICS The Kingdom of This World Alejo Carpentier, 1949 Set in Haiti during the transition to independence, this novel tells of Ti Noel, a leader who draws on African spirituality and wisdom to lead a group of ex-slaves through chaotic times.
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