Antoine Adrianus Raymondus de Kom (The Hague, 13 Augustus 1956) is a Dutch psychiatrist, writer and poet of Surinamese descent.
His grandfather was Anton de Kom, the famous Surinamese resistance fighter and anti-colonialist.
[2] In 1981, he made his debut under the pseudonym Raymond Sarucco with Palmen in the magazine De Gids.
[1][3] The poems expressed de Kom's connection to the Caribbean and his fascination for their past and present.
[5] In 2014, Antoine de Kom was awarded VSB Poetry Prize for Ritmisch zonder string (2013).