Discovering Pramoedya POSTCARD By Adam Gartrell, Indonesia Correspondent (read also this other essay on THIS EARTH OF MANKIND) JAKARTA, July 4 AAP – One of the greatest pleasures of living in Indonesia has been discovering the work of the country’s finest novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer. I’ve just finished reading Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet, a sweeping four-book […]
NETHERLANDS PERFORMANCES: “THEY CALL ME NYAI ONTOSOROH”
NETHERLANDS PERFORMANCES OF: THEY CALL ME NYAI ONTOSOROH The performances will be in Indonesian with English sub-titling. Van onrechtvaardigheid naar onafhankelijkheid In dit toneelstuk, gebaseerd op Bumi Manusia (Aarde der mensen) van Pramoedja Ananta Toer, volgen we de levens van Nyai Ontosoroh, haar dochter Annelies (een halfbloed) en haar ‘inlandse’ schoonzoon Minke. Tragische levens, want […]
Death of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
4 July, 2006 Indonesia’s greatest novelist and revolutionary intellectual died in Jakarta on April 30, 2006. Below are three articles by Max Lane, published in the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD< GREEN LEFT WEEKLY and JAKARTA POST respectively. (For more materials on Pramoedya see http://www.radix.net/~bardsley/prampage.html and http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~wm/wm6.html#pram as well as http://www.geocities.com/ticoalu2/ ) Sydney Morning Herald, May 16, […]
MAX LANE ONLINE 