Weihnachtsurlaub
The British author W. Somerset Maugham set several stories in the French Caribbean penal colonies. In 1935 he had stayed at Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni in French Guiana. His 1939 novel "Christmas Holiday" and two short stories in 1940's "The Mixture as Before" were set there, although he "ignored the brutal punishments and painted a pleasant picture of the infamous colony."