Among the various Caribbean literatures, Dutch-Caribbean literature remains largely unknown and unstudied. In a first part, this article analyzes the reasons for this paucity, and indicates at the same time some rare initiatives to break out of the linguistic isolation: special issues of outstanding literary reviews have been dedicated to the promotion and emancipation of Dutch Caribbean writers. In a second part, the article stresses the importance of translation of Francophone Caribbean literature into Dutch: the Dutch editor Knipscheer has given extensive attention to French Caribbean authors, and we focus in a last part on some difficulties in translating Simone Schwarz-Bart's and Condé's novels into Dutch.