Silvio Alberto (Tip) Marugg (
Willemstad, Curaçao,
16 December 1923–
22 April 2006) was a Dutch-Antillian writer and poet of Venezuelan/Swiss heritage. Marugg has written 3 novels in Dutch;
Weekendpelgrimage (1957),
In de straten van Tepalka (1967); and
De morgen loeit weer aan (1988), which was nominated for a major
Dutch literature prize. His style is best characterized as a variation on
magic realism. Tip Marugg has also written several poems (in literary magazines as well as his book of poems
Afschuw van Licht) and a
Dikshonario Erotiko; a dictionary of all words with an erotic meaning used in
Papiamentu.