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Amir Hamzah

Died in 1946

Tengku Amir Hamzah was born on 28 February 1911 in Tanjung Pura, in the sultanate of Langkat, Sumatra, the youngest son of the vice-sultan. Educated in Medan, at the secondary school in Surakarta and then in law in Batavia, he co-founded the review Poedjangga Baroe, launched in 1933, where most of his work appeared. Called back to Langkat, he married the sultan's eldest daughter in 1937. He was killed on 20 March 1946, with other detainees, during the social revolution in East Sumatra, and was proclaimed a national hero in 1975.

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