Putu Oka Sukanta

Putu Oka Sukanta was born on 29 July 1939 in Singaraja, in Bali. He had been writing since school and taught in secondary schools in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. Accused of belonging to the cultural organisation linked to the Communist Party, he was held without trial from 1966 to 1976, and learned acupuncture in prison from a Chinese doctor, his fellow prisoner. Once released, he worked as a healer while writing poems, short stories, novels and children's tales; several of his books have appeared in English, German and French.

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• NovelThreads of DignityMerajut HarkatPutu Oka Sukanta · 1999Literature