Hugo Pos

(1913-2000) Lawyer. He moved from his native country Surinam to The Netherlands, in order to study law in Leiden and later Paris. During the war he lived in England, later in Indonesia during the budding struggle for independence, and in Japan, where he worked in the process of sentencing war criminals. He became active as a judge later in his life. In the postwar Surinam years, he wrote poems and several plays in Soula under the pseudonym Ernesto Albin. He started writing prose later in his life, but he did publish several rare editions of collections of quatrains (later collected in Een uitroep zonder uitroeptaken (Exclamation without an exclamation mark, 1987). He published several collections of stories, poems and essays. (Het doosje van Toeti (Toeti’s Box, 1985), De ziekte van Anna Printemps (Anna Printemps’ Disease, 1987), Reizen en stilstaan (Traveling and standing still, 1988).