1. Lodewijk 'Lou' Lichtveld was a Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter who wrote under the pseudonym "Albert Helman".
11 Facts About Lou Lichtveld
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Lou Lichtveld gained notability in 1923 when he published the poetry collection De glorende dag, a milestone in immigrant literature in the Netherlands.
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Lou Lichtveld followed it three years later with Zuid-Zuid-West.
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Lou Lichtveld was born in Paramaribo, Suriname into an elite family.
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Lou Lichtveld completed this training after a short time and returned to Suriname.
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Lou Lichtveld used the pseudonym "Albert Helman" for the first time in 1926 on his debut novel Zuid-Zuid-West.
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Lou Lichtveld worked as a playwright and as a translator of foreign literature into Dutch.
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Lou Lichtveld wrote for the illegal paper Vrije Kunstenaar.
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In 1949, Lou Lichtveld returned to his native Suriname, where he was the Minister of Education and National Development and Minister of Health until 1951.
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The government fell over the Hospital Question in which Lou Lichtveld had fired doctor Henk van Ommeren over alleged irregularities which were later proven false.
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Lou Lichtveld was chairman of the Court of Audit of Suriname and director of the office folk reading.