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.

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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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 ...

In graduate school, I was introduced to the work of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, an Indonesian writer and Ramon Magsaysay awardee for literature. A nationalist, Pramoedya rebuked his writer colleagues for ...

MANILA, Philippines – A highlight of Virgin Labfest 2013 is “Pramoedya,” by author and inquirer.net columnist Benjamin Pimentel. Virgin Labfest is the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ annual ...

Pramoedya Ananta Toer is widely regarded as one of Indonesia ‘s best writers. At a young age, he joined the anti-colonial struggle against Japan during World War II and later enlisted in an army to ...