Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toerwas an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemic and histories of his homeland and its people. His works span the colonial period, Indonesia's struggle for independence, its occupation by Japan during the Second World War, as well as the post-colonial authoritarian regimes of Sukarno and Suharto, and are infused with personal and national history. The Dutch Government imprisoned him from 1947 to 1949, the Suharto regime from 1965 to 1979...
NationalityIndonesian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth6 February 1925
CountryIndonesia
Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.
A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.
Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.
I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.
Capital dictates the fate of humanity.
Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.
I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life—though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.
Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.
Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.
I did not succeed in everything I did. And even where it did seem I was succeeding it was not always the case. The human heart has a million facets.
Aku bangga menjadi seorang liberal, Tuan, liberal konsekwen. Memang orang lain menamainya liberal keterlaluan. Bukan hanya tidak suka ditindas, tidak suka menindas, lebih dari itu: tidak suka adanya penindasan ....
The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.
I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.
At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.