![]() ![]() Pramoedya's father was an educator and a member of a pro-independence group called Budi Otomo. Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Prah-MOU-dia ah-NAHN-ta Tour) was born in Blora, in central Java, on February 6, 1925, when Indonesia was still a colony of the Netherlands. ![]() Pramoedya has often been compared with Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other dissident writers around the world. He later documented his experiences in a memoir, Nyanyi sunyi seorang bisu (The Mute's Soliloquy, 1995, translated 1999). For a 10-year period beginning in 1969 he was held in a notorious prison camp on the island of Buru, writing four novels while he was imprisoned, or narrating them orally when he had no access to writing materials. His writing had special force because he lived that history, doing much of his best work while imprisoned as a result of his dissident activities.įirst it was Indonesia's Dutch colonizers who put Pramoedya in prison, then the independent country's first two rulers. Arguably Indonesia's best-known writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, also known as Pramoedya or Pram (1925–2006), was the author of novels that chronicled much of that Southeast Asian country's turbulent history. ![]()
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