Anwar Chairil

…was the great poet Chairil Anwar, who died in 1949 at age 27. The most prominent writer to emerge at this time was Pramoedya Ananta Toer, whose support for the revolution led to his arrest in 1947 by Dutch colonial authorities. He wrote his first published novel, Perburuan (1950; The…

…Indonesia were, in poetry, Chairil Anwar and Sitor Situmorang. Important novelists include Pramoedya Ananta Toer and Takdir Alisjahbana.