Fernando Báez

Fernando Báez (San Félix, Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan writer, poet and essayist. He is known for his work on the destruction of Iraqi books and art caused by the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Báez has a degree in education and a doctorate in library science, and worked for several years at the University of the Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, where he studied Greek and Latin under José Manuel Briceño Guerrero.

Among his works are Historia Universal de la Destrucción de Libros (2004), Historia de la Antigua Biblioteca de Alejandría (2003), La Destrucción Cultural de Iraq (2004), which was translated into English by Alfred MacAdam and published in 2008 as A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day

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Noam Chomsky

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Marvin Harris

American anthropologist Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York. A prolific writer, he was highly influential in the development of cultural materialism. In his work he combined Karl Marx's emphasis on the forces of production with Malthus's insights on the impact of demographic factors on other parts of the sociocultural system. Labeling demographic and production factors as infrastructure, Harris posited these factors as key in determining a society's social structure and culture.
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Pramoedya Ananta Toer was an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemics, and histories of his homeland and its people. A well-regarded writer in the West, Pramoedya's outspoken and often politically charged writings faced censorship in his native land during the pre-reformation era. For opposing the policies of both founding president Sukarno, as well as those of its successor, the New Order regime of Suharto, he faced extrajudicial punishment. During the many years in which he suffered imprisonment and house arrest, he became a cause célèbre for advocates of freedom of expression and human rights.

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* Perburuan (The Fugitive) (1950)
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Laksmi Pamuntjak

Laksmi Pamuntjak is a bilingual Indonesian novelist, poet, food writer, journalist and co-founder of Aksara Bookstore. She works as an art and food consultant and writes for numerous local and international publications including opinion articles for the Guardian.

She is the author of two collections of poetry (one of which, Ellipsis, appeared in the 2005 Herald UK Books of the Year pages); a treatise on the relationship between man and violence based on the Iliad; a collection of short stories based on paintings; five editions of the best-selling and award-winning Jakarta Good Food Guide; two translations of the works of Indonesian poet and essayist Goenawan Mohamad; and two bestselling novels.

Amba/The Question of Red, Pamuntjak’s first n
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Dee Lestari

Dee Lestari, is one of the bestselling and critically acclaimed writers in Indonesia.
Born in January 20, 1976, she began her debut with a serial novel: Supernova in 2001. Supernova’s first episode, Kesatria, Putri, dan Bintang Jatuh (The Knight, The Princess, and The Falling Star), was sold phenomenally, achieving a cult status among Indonesian young readers. She has published four other episodes: Akar (The Root), Petir (The Lightning), Partikel(The Particle), and Gelombang (The Wave).
Aside of the Supernova series, Dee has also published a novel titled Perahu Kertas (Paper Boat), and three anthologies: Filosofi Kopi (Coffee’s Philosophy), Madre, and Rectoverso — a unique hybrid of music and literature.
Dee also has an extensive music caree
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Carlos María Domínguez

Carlos María Domínguez was born in Buenos Aires in 1955 and has lived in Montevideo, Uruguay since 1989.

He is the author of Mares Baldíos, a collection of short stories, as well as five novels, including La Mujer Hablada, which won the Bartolomé Hidalgo Prize, Tres Muescas en mi Carabina, which won the Juan Carlos Onetti Prize, and The Paper House, which won the Premio de la Fundación Lolita Rubial, Vienna's Jury of Young Readers Prize, and has been translated into 18 languages.

Domínguez's nonfiction work includes Delitos de Amores Crueles, Escritos en el Agua, and El Norte Profundo, as well biographies about Juan Carlos Onetti, Roberto de las Carreras, and Tola Invernizzi. His journalistic articles have been collected in two books: El Com
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Tan Malaka

Tan Malaka (1894 - February 21, 1949) was an Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader. A staunch critic of both the colonial Dutch East Indies government and the republican Sukarno administration that governed the country after the Indonesian National Revolution, he was also frequently in conflict with the leadership of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), Indonesia's primary radical political party in the 1920s and again in the 1940s.

A political outsider for most of his life, Tan Malaka spent a large part of his life in exile from Indonesia, and was constantly threatened with arrest by the Dutch authorities and their allies. Despite this apparent marginalization, however, he played a key intellectual role in linking the inte
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Ahmad Tohari

Ahmad Tohari is Indonesia well-knowned writer who can picture a typical village scenery very well in his writings. He has been everywhere, writings for magazines. He attended Fellowship International Writers Program at Iowa, United State on 1990 and received Southeast Asian Writers Award on 1995.

His famous works are trilogy of Srintil, a traditional dancer (ronggeng) of Paruk Village: "Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk", "Lintang Kemukus Dini Hari", and "Jantera Bianglala"

On 2007, he releases again "Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk" in Java-Banyumasan language which is claimed to be the first novel using Java-Banyumasan. Toward his effort, he receives Rancage Award 2007. The book is only printed 1,500 editions and sold out directly in the book launch.

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Muhidin M. Dahlan

Muhidin M Dahlan lahir di Donggala, Sulawesi Tengah, pada tahun 1978. Sempat beberapa waktu mengampuh ilmu di Teknik Bangunan Insitut Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (IKIP) Jogjakarta dan Sejarah Peradaban Islam IAIN Kalijaga Jogjakarta. Kedua-duanya tak selesai. Mantan aktivis Pelajar Islam Indonesia (PII), Himpunan Mahasiswa Islam (HMI-MPO), dan Pergerakan Mahasiswa Islam Indonesia (PMII).

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É pai dos grandes Pedro e Felipe. Graduado em Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), desde 1993 é sócio da Fagundes, Schneider e Advogados Associados.

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Since 2010 Okky has published 10 books, comprising of five novels, one short-story collection, three children’s novels and one non-fiction book. Her newest book (2019) is Genealogi Sastra Indonesia: Kapitalisme, Islam dan Sastra Perlawanan or “Genealogy of Indonesian Literature: Capitalism, Islam and Critical Literature”, which is published online and can be freely downloaded from her website www.okkymadasari.net. Okky’s novels
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Benedict Anderson

Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson was Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University, and is best known for his celebrated book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, first published in 1983. Anderson was born in Kunming, China, to James O'Gorman Anderson and Veronica Beatrice Bigham, and in 1941 the family moved to California. In 1957, Anderson received a Bachelor of Arts in Classics from Cambridge University, and he later earned a Ph.D. from Cornell's Department of Government, where he studied modern Indonesia under the guidance of George Kahin. He is the brother of historian Perry Anderson.
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Bekerja di penerbitan buku sekolah antara 2005–2009 dan menghasilkan serial Sejarah Kebudayaan Islam untuk siswa MI berjudul Bertualang Bersama Tarikh (4 jilid, 2006) dan menulis cergam Seri Peperangan pada Zaman Nabi (3 jilid, 2008). Novelnya yang sudah terbit adalah Ulid Tak Ingin ke Malaysia (2009) dan Lari Gung! Lari! (2011). Novelnya yang ketiga, Kambing dan Hujan, memenangkan Sayembara Novel Dewan Kesenian Jakarta 2014.

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