Semaoen
Semaoen (1899–1971), also spelled Semaun, was the first chairman of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and was a leader of the Semarang branch of the Sarekat Islam.
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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)
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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 -
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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* Kranji-Bekasi Jatuh (1947)
* Perburuan (The Fugitive) (1950)
* Keluarga Gerilya (1950)
* Bukan Pasarmalam (1951)
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen -
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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Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Seno Gumira Ajidarma is a writer, photographer, and also a film critic. He writes short stories, novel, even comic book.
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He has won numerous national and regional awards as a short-story writer. Also a journalist, he serves as editor of the popular weekly illustrated magazine Jakarta-Jakarta. His piece in this issue is an excerpt from his novel "Jazz, Parfum dan Insiden", published by Yayasan Bentang Budaya in 1996.
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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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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.
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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 -
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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Budi Darma
Budi Darma lahir di Rembang, Jawa Tengah, 25 April 1937. Semasa kecil dan remaja ia berpindah-pindah ke berbagai kota di Jawa, mengikuti ayahnya yang bekerja di jawatan pos. Lulus dari SMA di Semarang pada 1957, ia memasuki Jurusan Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra dan Kebudayaan, Universitas Gadjah Mada.
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Lulus dari UGM, ia bekerja sebagai dosen pada Jurusan Bahasa Inggris—kini Universitas Negeri Surabaya—sampai kini. Di universitas ini ia pernah memangku jabatan Ketua Jurusan Inggris, Dekan Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, dan Rektor. Sekarang ia adalah guru besar dalam sastra Inggris di sana. Ia juga mengajar di sejumlah universitas luar negeri.
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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) -
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." -
Jostein Gaarder
Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories, and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often uses meta-fiction in his works, writing stories within stories.
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Gaarder was born into a pedagogical family. His best known work is the novel Sophie's World, subtitled "A Novel about the History of Philosophy." This popular work has been translated into fifty-three languages; there are over thirty million copies in print, with three million copies sold in Germany alone.
In 1997, he established the Sophie Prize together with his wife Siri Dannevig. This prize is an international environment and development prize (USD 100,000 -
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Okky Madasari
Okky Madasari is an Indonesian novelist. She is well-known for her social criticism with her fiction highlighting social issues, such as injustice and discrimination, and above all, about humanity. In academic field, her main interest is on literature, censorship and freedom of expression, and sociology of knowledge.
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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 -
Mahfud Ikhwan
Mahfud Ikhwan lahir di Lamongan, 7 Mei 1980. Lulus dari Jurusan Sastra Indonesia, Universitas Gadjah Mada, tahun 2003 dengan skripsi tentang cerpen-cerpen Kuntowijoyo. Menulis sejak kuliah, pernah menerbitkan cerpennya di Annida, Jawa Pos, Minggu Pagi, dan di beberapa buku antologi cerpen independen.
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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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Dido Michielsen
Dido Michielsen liet zich voor haar romandebuut Lichter dan ik inspireren door het leven van haar betovergrootmoeder. Het boek werd bejubeld door de pers, won de Boekhandelsprijs 2020 en werd genomineerd voor de Libris Literatuur Prijs. Van haar debuut zijn al meer dan 100.000 exemplaren verkocht.
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