previous            A–Z            next        Leni Mengelberg Pseudonym:        Marion Bekker Leni Mengelberg (1903–1984) married Lou Lichtveld in 1927, he was a Dutch-Suriname politician, writer, playwright, and a member of the resistance in the Second World War. The couple wrote several cookbooks under the pseudonym Marion Bekker, such as ‘Lekker koken voor weinig geld: honderd goedkope recepten’ [tasty cooking for little money: a hundred cheap recipes] and ‘Kook eens iets anders!, een kuur van buitenlandsche recepten’ [cook differently! a variety of foreign recipes]. See also Lou Lichtveld. Source: ‘Albert Helman’, Letterkundig Museum, retrieved 30 July 2013 previous            A–Z            next