Pramoedya ananta toer biography of abraham

A Javanese royal and half-Dutch woman fall in love as Indonesia rises to independence from colonial rule.

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ABRAHAM PAIS WAS A theoretical physicist during the first part of his career and a science historian during the second.

The late Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer makes a distinction between a “downstream” literary reality and an “upstream” historical reality.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer was born and died an Indonesian.

ABRAHAM PAIS WAS A theoretical physicist during the first part of his career and a science historian during the second.!

Toer, Pramoedya Ananta 1925–2006

PERSONAL:

Born February 6, 1925, in Blora, East Java, Indonesia; died April 30, 2006, in Jakarta, Indonesia, from complications of diabetes and heart disease; son of M.

Toer (headmaster of a private school); married twice; children: nine. Education: Attended radio vocational school, 1940-41; largely self-educated.

CAREER:

Indonesian journalist, editor, teacher, short-story writer, and novelist.

Tobacco and cigarette salesman, typist, and clerk for Japanese News agency Domei, 1942; editor of journal for Free Indonesia movement; imprisoned by the Dutch for political crimes, 1947-49; arrested and detained for months by Indonesian military, 1960; editor of cultural supplement of daily Bintang Timur, 1962-65; imprisoned, 1965, and exiled to prison camp on island of Buru, East Indonesia, 1969-79; under city arrest in Jakarta, Indonesia until 2000.

Cofounder, Multituli Literature Academy, Jakarta, Indonesia. Instructor at various educational instit