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231:("Diminishing") was published in 2012, in only 125 copies. Roemer disappeared from the public eye, and travelled the world for 15 years, with "cat, laptop, and backpack". Her first public appearance in a long time was planned for the 2015 premiere of
250:, becoming the first Caribbean author to win the award. According to the jury, Roemer's novels are a literary imagining of the history of Suriname, a history that is not very well known in the Netherlands outside of the topics of slavery and the
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but is "inextricably intertwined with the history of our country...and thus, by way of Roemer's unique oeuvre, with our literature". The jury added, "political engagement and literary experiment go hand in hand with Roemer".
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party, in 1989, but left quickly after a dispute with the party. Between 1996 and 1998, she published a trilogy that is now among the best-known of her works, though no longer in print:
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