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Amir Hamzah

1911 - 1946

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Tengku Amir Hamzah (February 1911 – 20 March 1946) was an Indonesian poet and National Hero of Indonesia. Born into a Malay aristocratic family in the Sultanate of Langkat in North Sumatra, he was educated in both Sumatra and Java. While attending senior high school in Surakarta around 1930, Amir became involved with the nationalist movement and fell in love with a Javanese schoolmate, Ilik Sundari. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amir Hamzah has received more than 172,043 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Amir Hamzah is the 4,012th most popular writer (down from 3,647th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Indonesia (down from 41st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indonesian Writer.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amir Hamzah ranks 4,012 out of 7,302. Before her are Hans Carossa, Abel Bonnard, Edith Bruck, Karin Michaëlis, Melissa Mathison, and Lloyd Alexander. After her are Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau, Michael Morpurgo, Kim Sowol, Diego Durán, Otto Ludwig, and Ricardo Palma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Amir Hamzah ranks 195. Before her are Ralph Kirkpatrick, Mutara III Rudahigwa, Gavriil Kachalin, Paul Pietsch, Gustave Gilbert, and Lisa Fonssagrives. After her are Sándor Bíró, Bob Kiesel, Saalumarada Thimmakka, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Ronald Neame, and Carl Keenan Seyfert. Among people deceased in 1946, Amir Hamzah ranks 153. Before her are Charles Despiau, Pantelis Karasevdas, William Wain Prior, Cesare Orsenigo, Carl Theodor Zahle, and Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães. After her are Júlio Prestes, Shirase Nobu, Teizo Takeuchi, Rudolf Walden, Renée Jeanne Falconetti, and Jacob Ellehammer.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Amir Hamzah ranks 48 out of 158. Before her are Anneke Grönloh (1942), Sudirman (1916), Agus Salim (1884), I Gusti Ngurah Rai (1917), Amir Sjarifuddin (1907), and Xenia Stad-de Jong (1922). After her are Arie de Jong (1865), Boediono (1943), Chairil Anwar (1922), Wage Rudolf Supratman (1903), Martha Christina Tiahahu (1800), and Mohammad Natsir (1908).

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Among WRITERS In Indonesia

Among writers born in Indonesia, Amir Hamzah ranks 3. Before her are Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925), and Hella Haasse (1918). After her are Chairil Anwar (1922), Xaviera Hollander (1943), Abdul Muis (1883), Mochtar Lubis (1922), Nh. Dini (1936), Sapardi Djoko Damono (1940), Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana (1908), Jeroen Brouwers (1940), and Ayu Utami (1968).

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