![]() 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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