Emile Wijntuin
Emile Linus Alfred Wijntuin was a Surinamese politician who served as Chairman of the National Assembly of Suriname from 1975 until the aftermath of the 1980 Surinamese coup d'état. Wijntuin was a member of the Progressive Surinamese People's Party.
Wijntuin was born in the Coronie District. Wijntuin joined the PSV shortly after its foundation. From 1958 to 1967 and 1968 to 1980, he was a member of the National Assembly. He served as the Chairman of the Estates of Suriname from 1973 to 1975.
After the 1980 coup d'etat, Wijntuin was placed under house arrest. In 1982, he left Suriname, and lived in diaspora in the Netherlands. Wijntuin returned after the restoration of democracy in 1991, but refrained from politics, and started to focus on writing books. In 1994, he published his biography Reflekties uit een politiek verleden. Wijntuin died on 7 May 2020 at the age of 95.
