A Critical Biography of Former Prime Minister Miguel Pourier

Abstract

The historian Alejandro Paula asserts that on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curasao people who have played an important role in society do not often write about their lives and memories to leave a legacy (Da Costa Gomez-Mattheeuws and de Lannoy-Berg 126). In general, political leaders are more represented among the biographical publications of Curasao, according to Peter Jordens’s study titled Outo/biografia kurasoleño: un bista general di 1921-2018. Besides works about politicians written by individual authors, biographical publications have also appeared in the form of liber amicorum, in which several authors write articles or commentary about the person in question (Jordens 14). The biography of the political leader Miguel Archangel Pourier (1938-2013) came into being through the active participation of his family and his former political party members who thought it necessary and important that a book be written about him. To create it, they con-tracted Bernadette Heiligers, who has written several books about Curasao, including a biography of the local writer Pierre Lauffer in 2012.