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Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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Birth
Central Java, Indonesia
Death
30 Apr 2006 (aged 81)
Jakarta, Kota Administrasi Jakarta Pusat, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
Burial
Jakarta, Kota Administrasi Jakarta Pusat, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia Add to Map
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Author. He was born in Blora, Central Java. He was a candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature. Also, he was an outspoken champion of democracy, who spent several years in prison under successive regimes. His 34 books and essays have been translated into 37 languages. His best-known works - the Buru Quartet novels about Indonesia's independence struggle against the Dutch - were written on scraps of paper and surreptitiously smuggled out while he was imprisoned on the remote island of Buru. He was first jailed in 1947 by Dutch troops for being anti-colonialist, and later for Soeharto's military administration took over in 1966, and spent 14 years without trial on the penal colony on Buru island. He died in Central Jakarta.
Author. He was born in Blora, Central Java. He was a candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature. Also, he was an outspoken champion of democracy, who spent several years in prison under successive regimes. His 34 books and essays have been translated into 37 languages. His best-known works - the Buru Quartet novels about Indonesia's independence struggle against the Dutch - were written on scraps of paper and surreptitiously smuggled out while he was imprisoned on the remote island of Buru. He was first jailed in 1947 by Dutch troops for being anti-colonialist, and later for Soeharto's military administration took over in 1966, and spent 14 years without trial on the penal colony on Buru island. He died in Central Jakarta.

Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni


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  • Originally Created by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni
  • Added: Apr 30, 2006
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14127577/pramoedya_ananta-toer: accessed ), memorial page for Pramoedya Ananta Toer (6 Feb 1925–30 Apr 2006), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14127577, citing Karet Bivak Cemetery, Jakarta, Kota Administrasi Jakarta Pusat, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia; Maintained by Find a Grave.