Eugène Constantijn Donders Drenthe (12 December 1925 in Laarwijk, Surinam – 30 March 2009 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) was a prominent Surinamese poet and playwright.

[2] This down-to-earth attitude also characterized his plays which showed the normal life of the Creoles in Suriname.

[3] The plays were successful, Geheim in het gezin was performed 57 times in Suriname.

[3] Drenthe produced 25 plays in all, which include Rudy (1959), Kedjaman (1969) and Djomp abra (1977).

[4] Drenthe was offered a knighthood in the Order of Orange Nassau in 1972, but refused to accept it, because he had done nothing special.