Mary Leurs

Maria Charlotte van der Horst - Leurs (Mary), (Surabaya, February 11, 1928 - ) is a Dutch writer.

Leurs grew up in the Dutch East Indies as the daughter of a noble Indian mother and a Dutch father. She evocatively describes her happy childhood on the sugar estate, but also the time of Japanese rule and the journey to the Netherlands. After the Second World War Mary had to flee with her mother to the Netherlands, her father had died. In Holland she had 5 children.