When…
… kodi crone worked as a foreign correspondent for the Dutch paper of record NRC/Handelsblad and the Dutch public broadcaster NOS Nieuws, they wrote three books.
After the assassination of one of Curacao’s foremost independence leaders, as well as the increasingly neo liberal slant of the Dutch & global media, kodi crone decided to leave journalism behind and focus on projects, such as Anti X-Change and 50x30diMei, ultimately leading to their present incarnation as a creative coder and sound designer.
BOOKS
The Antilles Don’t Exist
The Antilles Don’t Exist predicts the dismantling of the Netherlands Antilles as a country of five Caribbean islands.
Documenting the “latter days of a fictional country”, or “a state without a nation”, the book reads as a combined constitutional thriller and Caribbean history lesson.
Bert Bakker, 2004
Language: Dutch
ISBN: 90 351 2686 6
Salt Reef takes a deep dive into the history of the Rif plantation in the Curacaoan country side of Banda’Bou.
Combining historical fiction, non-fiction and magical realism, the hybrid work speaks to the island’s brutal colonial history and the magic that springs from memory.
KIT Publishers, 2008
Language: Dutch
ISBN: 90 683 2472 3
A Colonial Playground documents the constitutional change process birthing the countries of Curacao and St. Maarten.
Firmly placing the virgin countries in the arms of their Caribbean, South & North American neighbors, it makes the isolation of colonial existence on the periphery of the Dutch Kingdom all the more apparent.
Prometheus, 2010
Language: Dutch
ISBN: 90 446 1605 7