W. S. Rendra

Willibrordus Surendra Rendra was born on 7 November 1935 in Solo, into a Catholic family. He published his first poems in 1952, studied English literature at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, then drama in New York from 1964 to 1967, and on his return founded the Bengkel Teater. Converted to Islam in 1970, he read his verse before crowds; arrested during a reading in Jakarta and detained without trial, he was afterwards kept off the stage until 1986. He died in Depok, south of Jakarta, on 6 August 2009.

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• PoetryBallada orang-orang tercintaW. S. Rendra · 1957not translated into EnglishLiterature