Mahbub Djunaidi
Ia ingin menulis, dan akan terus menulis. Sampai kapan? ''Hingga tak lagi mampu menulis,'' ujarnya. Mungkin karena itu, ''Ketimbang disebut politikus, saya lebih senang disebut sastrawan.'' Lelaki ini mengawali kegiatan menulis dan berorganisasi sebagai redaktur majalah sekolah, Pemuda Masyarakat, sambil mengetuai Ikatan Pemuda Pelajar Indonesia (IPPI) ranting SMP II di Jakarta, 1952.
Sebelumnya, anak pertama dari 13 bersaudara ini tamat SD di Solo, Jawa Tengah. Waktu itu, pada awal Kemerdekaan, sekeluarga mengungsi. Di Solo, ia juga belajar di madrasah Mabaul Ulum. Salah seorang gurunya, Kiai Amir, ''Memperkenalkan saya kepada tulisan Mark Twain, Karl May, Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, dan lain-lain. Masa itu sangat mempengaruhi perkembangan h
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Chandra Bientang
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She published her first novel in 2019, an urban thriller entitled Dua Dini Hari, with Noura Publishing (Mizan Group). In that same year, her short story Anak Kucing Leti (Leti's Kitten) was selected for the Emerging Writers Program at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, organized by the Mudra Swari Saraswati Foundation. It was then translated into English and published at the festival, along with other Emerging Writers and established Indonesian authors in the book Karma: A Bilingual Anthology of Indonesian Wr -
Cho Nam-Joo
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* 조남주 (Korean)
* Cho Nam-Joo (English)
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* チョ・ナムジュ (Japanese)
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Rusdi Mathari menekuni profesi jurnalistik sejak 1990-an. Ia telah melanglang karier sebagai wartawan di Suara Pembaruan, lalu bekerja di InfoBank, detikcom, Pusat Data dan Analisa Tempo, dan Trust. Pada 1999, dia terpilih sebagai salah satu wartawan investigatif terbaik versi ISAI dan dikirim ke Bangkok untuk mengikuti crashprogram penulisan jurnalistik tentang HAM.
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Saat ini, ia masih aktif menulis di beberapa media. Termasuk menulis catatan dan pengalamannya yang dimuat blog pribadinya maupun status-status di dinding Facebook-nya. Di blognya, kita akan menemukan banyak tulisan-tulisannya yang serius. Sedangkan di Facebook, kita menemukan tulisan-tulisan yang sederhana seputar keseharian, pada sosok yang dijumpai, imajinasi pada tempat-temp -
Iksaka Banu
Iksaka Banu lahir di Yogyakarta, 7 Oktober 1964. Menamatkan kuliah di Jurusan Desain Grafis, Fakultas Seni Rupa dan Desain, Institut Teknologi Bandung. Bekerja di bidang periklanan di Jakarta hingga tahun 2006, kemudian memutuskan menjadi praktisi iklan yang bekerja lepas.
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Semasa kanak-kanak (1974–1976), ia beberapa kali mengirim tulisan ke rubrik Anak Harian Angkatan Bersenjata. Karyanya pernah pula dimuat di rubrik Anak Kompas dan majalah Kawanku. Namun, kegiatan menulis terhenti karena tertarik untuk mencoba melukis komik. Lewat kegiatan melukis komik ini, ketika duduk di bangku sekolah menengah pertama, ia memperoleh kesempatan membuat cerita bergambar berjudul “Samba si Kelinci Perkasa” di majalah Ananda selama 1978.
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Dido Michielsen
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Maman Suherman
Maman Suherman lahir di Makassar, 10 November 1965. Menempuh beragam pendidikan, namun hanya lulus dari Jurusan Kriminologi, FISIP - UI. Bertumbuh sebagai penulis selama 15 tahun (1998-2003), dari reporter hingga menjadi pemimpin redaksi di Kelompok Kompas Gramedia. Ia pernah juga menjadi Direktur Produksi hingga Managing Director (2003-2011) di Biro Iklan & Rumah Produksi Avicom.
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Penggagas Panasonic Gobel Awards ini memutuskan untuk tidak berkantor lagi, dan kini menjadi "pemulung kata-kata". Sempat menjadi presenter untuk acara di KompasTV, kini ia menjadi konsultan kreatif dan No Tulen acara 'Indonesia Lawak Club' di Trans7.
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Tere Liye
Author from Indonesia.
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"Jangan mau jadi kritikus buku, tapi TIDAK pernah menulis buku."
"1000 komentar yang kita buat di dunia maya, tidak akan membuat kita naik pangkat menjadi penulis buku. Mulailah menulis buku, jangan habiskan waktu jadi komentator, mulailah jadi pelaku." -
Marco Kartodikromo
Marco Kartodikromo was a journalist and also Indonesia independent activist, who makes him several times detained in the colonial era. All his works were created in prison, such as Student Hijo.
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He also founder of Inlandsche Journalisten Bond, a journalist group on 1914. He became a student of Tirto Adhi Soerjo, another avant-garda journalist in that era.
He died in exile at Boven Digoel on 1935.
Bibliography:
* Mata Gelap (1914)
* Student Hidjo (1918)
* Matahariah (1919)
* Rasa Mardika (1918) and reprinted 1931
* Sair Rempah-rempah (1918)
* Sair Sama Rasa Sama Rata (1917)
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Idrus
Idrus adalah sastrawan kelahiran Padang 21 September 1921. Ia dikenal sebagai pengarang pembaharu prosa di kalangan angkatan '45.
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Setelah menamatkan SMT, ia menjadi redaktur Balai Pustaka di tahun 1943, kemudian bekerja sebagai Kepala Bagian Pendidikan Garuda Indonesia Airways tahun 1950-1952. Mahir menulis sketsa, kumpulan sketsanya Corat-coret di Bawah Tanah, ia buat pada masa pendudukan Jepang. Beberapa drama yang ditulisnya, Ave Maria tahun 1948, Keluarga Surono tahun 1948, Kejahatan Membalas Dendam tahun 1948, Bisma tahun 1945 dan Jibaku Aceh tahun 1945.
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Bisma (1945)
Jibaku Aceh (1945)
Surabaya (1946)
Coret-coret di Bawah Tanah (1946)
Surabaya (1946)
Ave Maria ke Jalan Lain ke Roma (1948)
Tanah (1948)
Keluarga Surono (1948)
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Leila S. Chudori
Leila Salikha Chudori adalah penulis Indonesia yang menghasilkan berbagai karya cerita pendek, novel, dan skenario drama televisi.Leila S. Chudori bercerita tentang kejujuran, keyakinan, dan tekad, prinsip dan pengorbanan. Mendapat pengaruh dari bacaan-bacaan dari buku-buku yang disebutnya dalam cerpen-cerpennya yang kita ketahui dari riwayat hidupnya ialah Franz Kafka, pengarang Jerman yang mempertanyakan eksistensi manusia, Dostoyewsky pengarang klasik Rusia yang menggerek jauk ke dalam jiwa manusia. D.H Lawrence pengarang Inggris yang memperjuangkan kebebasan mutlak nurani manusia, pengarang Irlandia James Joyce, yang terkenal dengan romannya Ullysses. Suatu pelaksanaan proses kreatif Stream of Consciousnes, Herman Jesse, Freud, Erich Fr
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Y.B. Mangunwijaya
Yusuf Bilyarta Mangunwijaya was an architect, writer, Catholic priest, and activist. Romo Mangun (Father Mangun) was publicly known by his novel "Burung-Burung Manyar" which was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for South-East Asia Writings on 1996.
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Not only active in the fiction genre, Romo Mangun also wrote many non-fiction and architectural works such as "Sastra dan Religiositas" [tr.: Literature and Religiosity] which won The Best Non-Fiction prize in 1982.
Bibliography:
* Balada Becak, novel, 1985
* Balada dara-dara Mendut, novel, 1993
* Burung-Burung Rantau, novel, 1992
* Burung-Burung Manyar, novel, 1981
* Di Bawah Bayang-Bayang Adikuasa, 1987
* Durga Umayi, novel, 1985
* Esei-esei orang Republik, 1987
* Fisika Bangunan, buku Arsitektur, 1980
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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.
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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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Mochtar Lubis
Mochtar Lubis lahir tanggal 7 Maret 1922 di Padang. Mendapat pendidikan di Sekolah Ekonomi INS Kayu Tanam, Sumatera serta Jefferson Fellowship East and West Center, Universitas Hawai. Aktif sebagai penerbit dan Pemimpin Redaksi Harian Indonesia Raya Jakarta. Memperoleh Magsaysay Award untuk jurnalistik dan kesusasteraan, Golden Pen Award dari International Association of Editors and Publishers, Hadiah Sastra dari Badan Musyawarah Kebudayaan Nasional, Hadiah Penghargaan dari Persatuan Wartawan Indonesia, Hadiah dari Departemen P dan K tahun 1975 bagi novelnya "Harimau! Harimau!", dan Hadiah sastra dari Yayasan Jaya Raya untuk buku terbaik tahun 1977-1978, tanggal 15 Desember 1979, untuk romannya "Maut dan Cinta".
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Eka Kurniawan
Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya in 1975 and completed his studies in the Faculty of Philosophy at Gadjah Mada University. He has been described as the “brightest meteorite” in Indonesia’s new literary firmament, the author of two remarkable novels which have brought comparisons to Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Márquez and Mark Twain; the English translations of these novels were both published in 2015—Man Tiger by Verso Books, and Beauty is a Wound by New Directions in North America and Text Publishing in Australia. Kurniawan has also written movie scripts, a graphic novel, essays on literature and two collections of short stories. He currently resides in Jakarta.
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Dee Lestari
Dee Lestari, is one of the bestselling and critically acclaimed writers in Indonesia.
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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.
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Keigo Higashino
Associated Names:
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* Keigo Higashino
* 東野 圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)
Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.
Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co. (presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.
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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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Bibliography:
* Kranji-Bekasi Jatuh (1947)
* Perburuan (The Fugitive) (1950)
* Keluarga Gerilya (1950)
* Bukan Pasarmalam (1951)
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Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University of Cairo Medical School in 1955, specializing in psychiatry. For two years, she practiced as a medical doctor, both at the university and in her native Tahla.
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From 1963 until 1972, Saadawi worked as Director General for Public Health Education for the Egyptian government. During this time, she also studied at Columbia University in New York, where she received her Master of Public Health degree in 1966. Her first novel Memoirs of a Woman Doctor was published in Cairo in 1958. In 1972, however, she lost her job in the Egyptian government as a resu -
Eric Weiner
Eric Weiner is best-selling author of such books as THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS, THE GEOGRAPHY OF GENIUS, MAN SEEKS GOD and THE SOCRATES EXPRESS. His latest book, BEN & ME, is out now.
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His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. A number of high schools and universities have incorporated them into their curricula. Weiner is the recipient of the Borders Original Voices Award, and a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award.
As a long-time foreign correspondent for NPR, Eric reported from more than 30 nations, from Iraq to Indonesia, covering some of the major international events of recent times.
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Idrus
Idrus adalah sastrawan kelahiran Padang 21 September 1921. Ia dikenal sebagai pengarang pembaharu prosa di kalangan angkatan '45.
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Setelah menamatkan SMT, ia menjadi redaktur Balai Pustaka di tahun 1943, kemudian bekerja sebagai Kepala Bagian Pendidikan Garuda Indonesia Airways tahun 1950-1952. Mahir menulis sketsa, kumpulan sketsanya Corat-coret di Bawah Tanah, ia buat pada masa pendudukan Jepang. Beberapa drama yang ditulisnya, Ave Maria tahun 1948, Keluarga Surono tahun 1948, Kejahatan Membalas Dendam tahun 1948, Bisma tahun 1945 dan Jibaku Aceh tahun 1945.
Karya-karyanya:
Bisma (1945)
Jibaku Aceh (1945)
Surabaya (1946)
Coret-coret di Bawah Tanah (1946)
Surabaya (1946)
Ave Maria ke Jalan Lain ke Roma (1948)
Tanah (1948)
Keluarga Surono (1948)
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Marco Kartodikromo
Marco Kartodikromo was a journalist and also Indonesia independent activist, who makes him several times detained in the colonial era. All his works were created in prison, such as Student Hijo.
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He also founder of Inlandsche Journalisten Bond, a journalist group on 1914. He became a student of Tirto Adhi Soerjo, another avant-garda journalist in that era.
He died in exile at Boven Digoel on 1935.
Bibliography:
* Mata Gelap (1914)
* Student Hidjo (1918)
* Matahariah (1919)
* Rasa Mardika (1918) and reprinted 1931
* Sair Rempah-rempah (1918)
* Sair Sama Rasa Sama Rata (1917)
* Babad Tanah Djawi (1924-1925)