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In a 2005 documentary made on his life by a Norwegian admirer of his work, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, one of the greatest literary chroniclers of the 20th century, recalls an anecdote surrounding his ...

On April 29, the Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer died at his daughter’s home in East Jakarta, aged 81, of heart disease and complications from diabetes. Few writers of the twentieth century ...

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Google marked what would have been the 92nd birthday of Indonesian patriot Pramoedya Ananta Toer on Monday with a doodle depicting the long-incarcerated novelist hard at work at his typewriter.

Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who overcame imprisonment and censorship to publish dozens of stories and novels about his country, died Sunday among family at his East Jakarta home, his ...

The greatest modern Indonesian writer has left a challenging as well as a rich legacy to his successors, writes Alex G Bardsley. Pram was born in 1925 in Blora, east Java to the strong-minded daughter ...

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