Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta:
see Pramoedya Ananta ToerPramoedya Ananta Toer,1925–2006, modern Indonesia's preeminent writer of fiction, b. Blora, Java. The son of a nationalist headmaster, he was a longtime journalist, involved left-wing politics from the 1940s until his death.
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Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
Born Feb. 6, 1925, in Blora, central Java. Indonesian writer. A leading representative of the “1945 Generation”; since the mid-1950’s, a member of the Society of People’s Culture (Lekra).
From 1947 to 1949, Toer was a victim of repression by the Dutch military administration. In prison he wrote the short-story collections Sparks of Revolution (published 1950), The Dawn (published 1950), and Crippled Souls (published 1951). He also wrote the novels Persecution (published 1950), Partisan Family (published 1950), and On the Bank of the Bekasi River (published 1947; Russian translation, 1965). These works, which contain elements of pacifism and protest against all forms of violence, express the theme of sacrifice for the victory of the Indonesian revolution.
Subsequently, Toer wrote collections of short stories that stressed social criticism, for example, This Is Not a Fair (1951), Stories of Blora (1952; translated into Russian as About What Passed, 1957), and Stories of Jakarta (1957); he also wrote the novel Corruption (1954). Toer is also the author of publicist monographs. He has translated works by foreign writers, including Soviet Russian writers, into Indonesian.
After the events of 1965, Toer was arrested and sent to a concentration camp on the island of Buru.
WORKS
Midah, simanis bergigi emas. [Bukittinggi-Jakarta] 1962.In Russian translation:
Eto bylo v luzhnom Bantene. Moscow, 1961.
REFERENCES
Smurova, N. M. “Tvorcheskii put’ Pramud’i Ananty Tura.” In the collection Voprosy filologii stran Iugo-Vostochnoi Azii. [Moscow] 1965.Teeuw, A. Modern Indonesian Literature. The Hague, 1967.
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