Poetry
Ballada orang-orang tercinta
Not translated into English
W. S. Rendra · 1957
Synopsis
Ballads about ordinary people and violent deaths. In the first, the wind talks with Patima; others speak of the men of the limestone hills, the unfortunate Koyan, Sumilah, a guerrilla, a prisoner, the killing of the bandit Atmo Karpo, a crucifixion, a murdered mother, a bully's daughter, waiting, a family meal, a telegram that arrives at dusk and an adventurer.
Context
The collection appeared in 1957 from PT Pembangunan in Jakarta, in about fifty pages; it brought together ballads that the author had been writing since secondary school, five years after his debut in the magazine Siasat. Pustaka Jaya then took it over and issued an eighth printing in 1996. A. Teeuw considered that this poet belonged to none of the generations into which the history of modern Indonesian literature is divided.
Who it is for
In Indonesian, with no French or English translation; short ballads, each telling a life.
Prizes and reception
His biographers link to this first book the national literary prize of the culture council, dated 1956 or 1957.
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