Jan Johannes Theodorus Boon (1911-01-10)January 10, 1911 Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Died
April 22, 1974(1974-04-22) (aged 63) The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Occupation
Writer, journalist, activist
Nationality
Dutch
Tjalie Robinson is the main alias of the Indo (Eurasian) intellectual and writer Jan Boon (10 January 1911 – 22 April 1974) also known as Vincent Mahieu. His father Cornelis Boon, a Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) sergeant, was Dutch and his Indo-European mother Fela Robinson was part Scottish and Javanese.
He is considered to be the author of unique Indo literature. Tjalie Robinson became the most influential post war Indo activist of his generation and the most important promoter of Indo culture anywhere. In his essay "Sweet Java, about Tjalie Robinson." Rudy Kousbroek, one of the Netherlands foremost essayists, simply called him "one of the greatest Dutch writers".[1]
His aim as cultural guardian was to preserve Indo culture for the future or as he put it himself: "To create living monuments for an immortal past.".
In his most vivid description of the Eurasian nature of his Indo identity Tjalie Robinsion wrote:
"I did not care that people wanted to call me ‘neither fish nor fowl,’ and wanted to label me (an Indo), either Indonesian or Dutch. For them I just had to choose between the two, right? Nevertheless, I stubbornly named the turtle as ‘neither fish nor fowl,’ and praised this animal as a unique, land-and-sea-lover who lives to very old ages, whose meat has an excellent taste, and who cuts through oceans from continent to continent. I said, "Just as I do not find the turtle inferior, although he is neither fish nor fowl, I do not think the Indo inferior."
Tjalie Robinson's book 'Tjies' was awarded a literary prize by the municipality of Amsterdam in 1958.
Robinson is the best read Dutch author in Indonesia.[2]
^Kousbroek, Rudy Lief Java, over Tjalie Robinson. (Part II, 1988) available in his compiled work: Kousbroek, Rudy Het Oostindisch kampsyndroom. (Publisher: Olympus, 2005) P.130 ISBN 978-90-467-0203-1 OCLC 66435443
^Nieuwenhuys, Rob. ‘Oost-Indische spiegel. Wat Nederlandse schrijvers en dichters over Indonesië hebben geschreven vanaf de eerste jaren der Compagnie tot op heden.’, (Publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1978) p.555 [1]
TjalieRobinson is the main alias of the Indo (Eurasian) intellectual and writer Jan Boon (10 January 1911 – 22 April 1974) also known as Vincent Mahieu...
kinship relations within Eurasian communities, it has been argued by TjalieRobinson that the origin of the Indo was less of a thin facade laid over a Dutch...
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literary prizes. Together with the Dutch-Indo author and essayist TjalieRobinson he is credited with establishing a whole new genre in Dutch literature...
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small group of intellectuals, including Leo Vroman and the iconic TjalieRobinson, that for a while was able to print a camp periodical named 'Kampkroniek'...
of the Dutch East Indies; in the literature, the notable author is TjalieRobinson. Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) by J. M. Coetzee depicts the unfair...
written by Indo-European authors led by the "avant garde visionary" TjalieRobinson, who is the best-read Dutch author in contemporary Indonesia, and second...
his admiration for Dutch Indo-Eurasian authors like E. du Perron, TjalieRobinson, Beb Vuyk as well as Indonesian intellectual Sutan Sjahrir. Rudy Kousbroek...
Assimilation. Indo author TjalieRobinson continued to write literature in Pecok up to his death in 1974. See: Paasman, Bert ‘TjalieRobinson, de stem van Indisch...
States. His Dutch Indonesian friend, fellow camp survivor, and author TjalieRobinson also lived in the United States, where he founded several cultural...
‘Indies Cultural Circle’, assembled around famous Indo intellectual TjalieRobinson. One of their accomplishments was the founding of the Pasar Malam Besar...
prisoner-of-war camps. In the camp Tjimahi he befriended the authors TjalieRobinson and Rob Nieuwenhuys. His uncle was the physician and medical researcher...
the Dutch East Indies and the Caribbean, including authors such as TjalieRobinson, Albert Helman (Lou Lichtveld) and Tip Marugg. Together with Olf Praamstra...
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Indo authors and puts her in the tradition of the legendary TjalieRobinson. Like Robinson who explored and benchmarked his Eurasian identity from a global...
and Ranger, Pepys' Diary, Tommy Walls), dies at age 76. April 22: TjalieRobinson, Dutch comics artist (Taaie en Neut), dies at age 63. April 27: Jean...
contact with native residents of the archipelago. Agreeing with author TjalieRobinson on the incorrect assumptions and generalities present in the novel...
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