Author · Indonesia
Sanusi Pané
Died in 1968
Sanusi Pane was born on 14 November 1905 in Muara Sipongi, in Batak country, the son of an Angkola schoolteacher and artist. A graduate of a teacher training school in Batavia in 1925, he taught in Java, stayed in India from 1929 to 1930 to study its culture, then was editor of the journal Timbul. Dismissed from teaching in 1934 for belonging to the Indonesian National Party, he headed a Sino-Malay newspaper in Batavia in 1936 and joined Balai Pustaka in 1941. He argued, against Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, that Indonesia should seek its resources in the East. He died in Jakarta on 2 January 1968.
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- PoetryPuspa MegaSanusi Pané · 1927not translated into EnglishLiterature