Author · Indonesia
Muhammad Yamin
Died in 1962
Muhammad Yamin was born in August 1903 in Talawi, in the Sawahlunto district, in Minangkabau country, in Sumatra. Having attended the Dutch schools for natives, he obtained a law degree in Batavia in 1932. From 1920 he published verse in Malay in Jong Sumatra, the magazine of the young Sumatrans, whose association he chaired from 1926 to 1928, and he naturalised the sonnet in that language. He was one of the drafters of the Youth Pledge of 1928, then, after independence, minister of justice, education and information, and he wrote history books. He died in Jakarta on 17 October 1962.
In the catalogue 1
- PoetryIndonesia, Tumpah DarahkuMuhammad Yamin · 1928not translated into EnglishLiterature