Belén Kock-Marchena
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(1942, Bonaire) is gepensioneeerd onderwijzeres op de Pius X school te Dakota op Aruba. Zij kreeg haar opleiding in Nederland. Behalve onderwijzeres en dichteres is zij ook een verteller. Op een boeiende beeldende manier brengt zij haar verhalen tot leven. Ze maakt hierbij gebruik van de Kamishibay kast met vertelplaten. Haar gedicht 'Juffouw, ik heb een botér meegebrengt' werd in 1986 uitgegeven. Voor drie van haar gedichten kreeg ze een prijs in Trinidad. Het gedicht 'Bo tei... Felicidad?' werd uitgegeven door Creation Fire in 1989. In 1995 verscheen haar eerste bundel 'Vibrashon di Amor', in 1998 gevolgd door 'Milager / Miracle' en 'Den bena di bida / Levensader' in 2001. Tevens verscheen een cd met haar gedichten 'Alimento pa alma'.
WIN/Biblioteca Nacional Aruba 2005
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Crusa Lama - Aruba
With: Belén Kock-Marchena, Clark Accord, Diana Ferrus, Drisana Deborah Jack, Gerrit Komrij, Jessica van der Linden, Johnny Scharbaay, Myra Römer, Olga Zaandam-Buckley, Putu Wijaya
A programme with literature and music from Indonesia, the Netherlands, South-Africa, Suriname, Saint Martin, Curaçao and Aruba, with MC Mirto Laclé. Six authors travel from island to island in these weeks, for the festival Crossing the Seas. This evening they perform with their Aruban fellow-poets Olga Zaandam-Buckley and Belén Kock-Marchena. The Dutch former 'Dichter des Vaderlands (inoffical 'poet laureate') Gerrit Komrij will perform his poems. One of the main writers from Indonesia, Putu Wijaya, wil read one of his wonderful stories. The Dutch/Surinamese novelist Clark Accord - known through his debut-novel De Koningin van Paramaribo (The Queen of Paramaribo) - wil read from his latest novel Tussen Apoera en Oreala (Between Apoera and Oreala). Poet Diana Ferrus comes from Cape Town. She became known through her poem on Saartje Baartman, the 'Hottentot-Venus', a black South-African woman who in the 19th century was forced to travel through Europe as a kermiss-attraction. Myra Römer, born in Curaçao, now lives in The Netherlands. Early she a surprising writers' debut with Verhalen van Fita (Stories of Fita), about a girl growing up in Curaçao in the fifties. Drisana Deborah Jack is a poet from Saint Martin. All foreign authors will read in their mother tongue, while their text is simultaneously projected on a screen in Papiamento, the language of Aruba. There is also music in the programme, by the Aruban musician Johnny Scharbaay.
