Cola Debrot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cola Debrot

Governor of the Netherlands Antilles

Date of Birth: 04-May-1902

Place of Birth: Bonaire, Netherlands, Netherlands

Date of Death: 03-Dec-1981

Profession: writer, politician, literary critic

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.