Signa Vianen

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Signa E.E. Vianen (born 1971 in Paramaribo) is a Surinamese journalist. She has been writing for De Ware Tijd, one of the country's leading newspapers, since early 2002.

Vianen belongs to a generation of young media workers born shortly before Suriname’s independence from the Netherlands in November 1975. She is best described as a promising future awareness raising journalists. Amongst her assets are extremely sharp insights, when addressing whatever issue at hand.

Vianen lives in South America, though her family mostly resides in Europe. Her experience ranges from regular writings for print media to (live and pre-recorded) radio broadcasts and programs, as well as television news productions since 1992. She also works in publications for the Anton de Kom University in Suriname.

The Moiwana case was one in a wide range of publications, if not regular news reports, in a time when reports about violations of basic human rights were still somewhat considered a taboo in this democratic country. Namely 'Moiwana' almost got no media coverage at first, was up until recently considered to be a 'dull' case.

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Signa Vianen is one of the few locals who helped edit the original database for the 2005 Prisma Sranan Tongo dictionary, an overview of Sranan (the main dialect in Suriname) words and verbal expressions (first selection ever translated into Dutch ánd vice versa).

This dictionary was published by Spectrum, a Dutch firm [1].Its first edition (written by Juliënne Blanker and Jaap Dubbeldam) sold out in weeks in the Netherlands. Spectrum is also the publisher of the Winkler Prins encyclopedia.

A Microsoft/Spectrum collaboration resulted in the 2004 Winkler Prins Encarta [2].