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Armijn Pane

Died in 1970

Armijn Pane was born on 18 August 1908 in Muara Sipongi, Sumatra, in the Dutch East Indies; his brother Sanusi Pane was also a writer. After unfinished medical studies in Batavia and Surabaya, he graduated in Western literature from the secondary school in Surakarta in 1931, worked as a journalist and teacher, then in 1933 co-founded Poedjangga Baroe, a centre of literary modernism. An editor at Balai Pustaka and later an official at the Ministry of Education, he died in Jakarta on 16 February 1970.

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