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Miscellaneous:
- Essays by pak Pram:
- Quotations: words of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- Hasta Mitra: A saga of a publication house.
- Live as a political prisoner
On Buru island:
Miscellaneous:
- From NPR (National Public Radio) *:
(*) Real Audio File
- June 12, 1997 All Things Considered:
PRAMOEDYA PROFILE [07:30]
NPR's Julie McCarthy visits the writer who is thought to be Southeast Asia's best hope for a Nobel Prize in literature. The aging Pramoeyda Anata Toer has chronicled Indonesia's transition from the decadence of Dutch colonialism to independence under two successive dictators.
His most famous work is an oral anthology, preserved by telling and re-telling among his fellow prisoners during his years in a brutal penal colony-- the price for his leftist views under the anti-Communist Suharto government.
- May 1, 1999 Weekend All Things Considered:
Indonesia's Voice of Conscience [12:42]
NPR's Ted Clark profiles Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer. His new book is "The Mute's Soliloquy, A Memoir" (Hyperion East), an account of his imprisonment on Buru Island from 1969 to 1979. Pramoedya is one of Indonesia's greatest writers - but his work is still officially banned in his country.
He is a nationalist who is mistrusted and feared by his country's leaders. But for the first time in decades, Pramoedya has been allowed to travel outside Indonesia and is now in the United States.
- November 18, 1999 Talk of the Nation:
HOUR ONE: Book Club of the Air [47:00]
This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
HOST: Melinda Penkava
GUEST: William Schwalbe
*Executive Editor, Hyperion Books
*U.S. Publisher of Pramoedya Ananta Toer's "Buru Quartet" (This Earth of Mankind is the first in the series)
This Earth of Mankind, by Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, tells the story of Minke, a Javanese student muddling through life in the waning days of Dutch colonization of Indonesia. Straddling two cultures, Minke's search for racial and cultural identity reflects the struggle for freedom and justice taking place in Indonesia today.
- Pak Joesoef's speech at Fordham
University.
- Pak Goen's (Goenawan Mohamad) speech at Pramoedya Unbound, Asia Society, NYC: April 22, 1999.
A Lighter Side of PAT:
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