Diana Melinda Lebacs (12 September 1947 – 11 July 2022) was a Curaçaoan educator, actress, and author, most known for her children's literature. She wrote in both Papiamento and Dutch. In 1976 she received the Zilveren Griffel [nl] (Silver Stylus) award, one of the Netherlands' highest honors for youth literature, for her book Nancho van Bonaire. In 2003 she earned the inaugural Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Caribisch Gebied (PBCCG Cultuurprijs, Prince Bernhard Caribbean Cultural Fund Prize) for her book Caimin's geheim and in 2007 she was honored as a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
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Lebacs, Diana (1971). Sherry: het begin van een begin [Sherry, The Beginning of a Beginning] (in Dutch). The Hague, The Netherlands: Leopold. ISBN 90-258-3937-1.
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Lebacs, Diana (1975). Nancho van Bonaire [Nancho of Bonaire] (in Dutch). The Hague, The Netherlands: Leopold. OCLC 252457187.
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Lebacs, Diana (1976). Chinina-kome-Lubida (in Papiamento). Curaçao: Montero. OCLC 69338550.
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Lebacs, Diana (1977). Ken-ken pia di wesu (in Papiamento). Curaçao: Montero. OCLC 66361746.
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Lebacs, Diana (1977). Nancho Matroos [Nancho the Sailor] (in Dutch). The Hague, The Netherlands: Leopold. ISBN 978-9-025-83943-7.
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Lebacs, Diana (1979). Nancho Niemand [Nancho the Nobody] (in Dutch). The Hague, The Netherlands: Leopold. ISBN 978-9-025-83920-8.
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Lebacs, Diana (1982). Nancho Kapitein [Nancho the Captain] (in Dutch). The Hague, The Netherlands: Leopold. ISBN 978-9-025-83928-4.
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Lebacs, Diana (1983). Suikerriet Rosy [Sugarcane Rosy] (in Dutch). The Hague, The Netherlands: Leopold. ISBN 978-9-025-83930-7.
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Lebacs, Diana (1990). Lichten boven Klein Bonaire [Lights above Little Bonaire] (in Dutch). The Hague, The Netherlands: Leopold. ISBN 978-9-025-83959-8.
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Lebacs, Diana (1994). De langste maand [The Longest Month] (in Dutch). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: In de Knipscheer. ISBN 978-9-062-65388-1.
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Lebacs, Diana (2001). Caimin's geheim [Caimin's secret] (in Dutch). The Hague, The Netherlands: Leopold. ISBN 978-9-025-83488-3.
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Lebacs, Diana (2009). Waar is Olivier?/Unda Olivier ta? [Where is Olivier?] (in Dutch and Papiamento). Willemstad, Curaçao: Fundashon Editorial Sembra Buki. ISBN 978-9-990-41181-2.
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Lebacs, Diana (2014). Belumbe/De waterlijn [The Waterline] (in Dutch and Papiamento) (1st ed.). Haarlem, The Netherlands: In de Knipscheer. ISBN 978-90-6265-861-9.
- Lebacs, Diana (2016). Duizend leugens bruidstaart: roman [A thousand lies wedding cake] (in Dutch) (Eerste uitgave ed.). Haarlem, The Netherlands: In de Knipscheer. ISBN 978-90-6265-924-1
