Celestine Raalte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Celestine Raalte

writer and performance artist from Suriname

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1948

Place of Birth: Paramaribo, Paramaribo District, Suriname

Profession: writer, poet, playwright

Nationality: Suriname

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Celestine Raalte (born 1948) is a writer and performance artist from Suriname living in the Netherlands. She was born in Paramaribo.
During the 1970s, she was a member of the Surinamese women's group Sranan S'ma Abi Wan Oso.
Her work first appeared in the 1981 anthology Tide tamara, Dichten voor het volk.
Raalte moved to Utrecht in 1986.
In 1989, she published her first collection of poems Akwenda / Streven.
That was followed by Ma Awitya in 1997.
Both works also appeared in Dutch.Her work has also appeared in various magazines and in the 1995 anthology Spiegel van de Surinaamse poëzie.
Raalte also wrote a play Witte de Witlaan 25.In 1997, she received the Kwakoe Award for her contribution to Surinamese art.
She has received the Zami Award twice: once for her fashion designs in 1999 and once for her poetry in 2000.
In 2002, she received the Gaanman Gazon Matodja Award.
In 2010, she was named an Officer in the Surinamese Honorary Order of the Yellow Star.