1. Els Moor was a Dutch-born Surinamese educator, editor and book publisher.
12 Facts About Els Moor
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Els Moor is best known for Fa yu e tron leisibakru, a literary education method for secondary education.
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Els Moor was born on 17 May 1937 in Heemstede as Elisabeth Henriette Pauline Els Moor.
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Els Moor was a high school teacher in Bussum for twelve years, and in Amsterdam-Zuidoost for seven years.
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In 1978, Els Moor moved to Suriname where she taught at the Surinamese Pedagogical Institute and the Instituut voor de Opleiding van Leraren until her retirement in 1997.
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In 1992, Els Moor became the chief editor of the De Ware Tijd Literair, the weekly literary section of De Ware Tijd.
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Els Moor changed the focus to youth literature, and national and international literature for adults.
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The literary section resulted in several book publications, therefore, in 2001, Els Moor established the publishing house Okopipi named after the blue poison dart frog.
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Els Moor considered it important that people learned about their own city, and their own culture.
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In 2000, after her retirement as a teacher, she started to teach Dutch to the Tiriyo people in Kwamalasamutu, because Els Moor felt that education in the interior was being neglected.
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Els Moor remained the chief editor of De Ware Tijd Literair until her death.
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On 9 March 2016, Els Moor died in Paramaribo at the age of 78.