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May 04, 1902 Bonaire, Netherlands, Netherlands Died on 03 Dec 1981 (aged 79)
Governor of the Netherlands Antilles
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About Cola Debrot
- Nicolaas (Cola) Debrot (4 May 1902, Kralendijk – 3 December 1981, Amsterdam) was a writer, lawyer, medical doctor and politician.
- He was the son of a plantation owner.
- In 1904 he moved from Bonaire to Curaçao, and then when he was 14 he moved to the Netherlands to attend school.
- He went to secondary school Utrecht University in the Netherlands, studying law and later medicine, where he also started his literary career.
- His debut, Mijn zuster de negerin (1935) is his best known.
- In the late 1940s, he returned to the Antilles and lived on Curaçao, where he establish the foundations of Dutch-Antillian literature.
- Debrot was also been active as a politician.
- From 1962 to 1970, he was the Governor of the Netherlands Antilles, the first to be born on one of the islands.
- In 1970, he returned to Netherlands to dedicate his time to writing.
