Silvio Alberto (Tip) Marugg (1923–2006) was a Dutch-Curaçaoan writer and poet, best known for his 1988 novel De morgen loeit weer aan (translated into English as The Roar of Morning[1]).
Marugg wrote poetry before publishing three novels; he is also the author of Dikshonario Erotiko, a dictionary of all words with an erotic meaning used in Papiamentu.
[2] Marugg, whose nickname at home was "Tip",[2] was born in Willemstad, Curaçao, on 16 December 1923,[3] in the Roman-Catholic district Otrabanda, where his father owned a grocery store.
His editor in chief was Oscar (Paachi) van Kampen, publisher of a humor magazine, Lorita Real, which he let Marugg write and edit whenever he was away or on vacation.
A foundational theme in his work is the inability to live an authentic life, and fate, dead, and night are recurrent elements in his poetry, which is influenced by Hendrik Marsman.
[3] He was deeply engaged with many literary activities on the island, including the Cultureel Centrum Curaçao, founded in 1949, for whom he made a Dutch-language version of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
He lived in Willemstad for a few more years and then moved to Pannekoek, a small community in the Bandabou district, on the western part of the island.
[2] Existential loneliness is the subject of In de straten van Tepalka (1967); an ingenious doubling of characters allows the first-person narrator to make fun of himself without turning the novel into melodrama.
In 1991 he published Un prinsipio pa un Dikshonario Erotika Papiamentu, an alphabetical list of words and expressions in Papiamento pertaining to love, eroticism, and sex.
[2] The semi-autobiographical nature of his writing has led to misunderstandings; after his rise to fame for De morgen loeit weer aan, some of these details, combined with outlandish stories about his life in a remote area of Curaçao, appeared in newspapers--that he had lived in Venezuela, that his mother was Venezuelan, that he was an atheist who wandered around drunk at night, that the military police had pulled him out of school.