Tessa Leuwsha

Publisher: Atlas Contact 

Tessa Leuwsha lives and works in Suriname. She wrote the multi-nominated The Parbo-blues and Solo, A Love, Plantation Wildlust and the literary non-fiction books Fansi’s Silence and The Tramp: In search of Suriname’s resilience. On Fansi’s Silence she based her successful and internationally screened documentary Mother Suriname Mama Sranan. In addition to her own books, Tessa Leuwsha wrote a foreword to Anton de Kom’s We Slaves of Surnam, among others.