Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana

Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana was born on 11 February 1908 in Natal, in northern Sumatra, to a mother from a Minangkabau family settled there for generations. Trained at the teacher training college in Bandung, he taught in Palembang, then joined the publishing office of the colonial administration in Batavia, where he was an editor of Panji Pustaka. He founded the journal Poedjangga Baroe in 1933, published a new grammar of Indonesian in 1936 and, against Sanusi Pane, defended a modernisation taken from the West. He then taught in Jakarta, Padang and Kuala Lumpur, and died in Jakarta on 17 July 1994.

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• NovelLayar TerkembangSutan Takdir Alisjahbana · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature