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    Gazon Matodya (c. 1920 – 1 December 2011) was gaanman of the Okanisi or Ndyuka people of Suriname, South America, one of six Maroon peoples in the area...
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    1999 and once for her poetry in 2000. In 2002, she received the Gaanman Gazon Matodja Award [nl]. In 2010, she was named an Officer in the Surinamese Honorary...
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    wrote for De Ware Tijd Literair. In 2003, Bhai received the Gaanman Gazon Matodja Award. He died on 19 December 2018 at the age of 83. Surinamese literature...
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    the Order of Orange-Nassau. In 2009, he was awarded the Gaanman Gazon Matodja Award, the highest Maroons award. Van Kempen's literary work comprises two...
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    Honorary Order of the Yellow Star (category Awards established in 1975)
    onderscheiding republiek Suriname - website Starnieuws.com "Dood Gaanman Gazon Matodja, het einde van een tijdperk". Werkgroup Caraïbische Letteren (in...
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