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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 163,313 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Amir Hamzah is the 3,660th most popular writer (up from 3,744th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Indonesia (up from 42nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indonesian Writer.

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  • 160k

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  • 49.63

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amir Hamzah ranks 3,660 out of 5,755. Before her are Laza Kostić, José Emilio Pacheco, Bernardo Guimarães, Abraham Goldfaden, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, and Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso. After her are Vitsentzos Kornaros, Helena Roerich, Kurd Lasswitz, Tevfik Fikret, Gloria Fuertes, and Fumiko Enchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Amir Hamzah ranks 176. Before her are Broderick Crawford, Robert Marchand, Big Joe Turner, Lee Falk, Viktor Nekrasov, and Willem Johan Kolff. After her are Roy Rogers, Floyd Council, Nagarjun, Xiao Hong, Mutara III Rudahigwa, and Guido del Mestri. Among people deceased in 1946, Amir Hamzah ranks 135. Before her are Maximilian Steinberg, Aleksandr Bogomolets, Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Georg Åberg, Safiya Zaghloul, and Raimu. After her are Carl Gustav Witt, Holger Thiele, Shirase Nobu, Júlio Prestes, Juan Bautista Sacasa, and Arthur Dove.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Amir Hamzah ranks 41 out of 126. Before her are Fatmawati (1923), Hella Haasse (1918), Iskandar Muda (1583), Prabowo Subianto (1951), Agus Salim (1884), and Arie de Jong (1865). After her are Anneke Grönloh (1942), Sudirman (1916), Chairil Anwar (1922), Wage Rudolf Supratman (1903), Xenia Stad-de Jong (1922), and Amir Sjarifuddin (1907).

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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), Abdul Muis (1883), Xaviera Hollander (1943), Mochtar Lubis (1922), Sapardi Djoko Damono (1940), Ayu Utami (1968), and Eka Kurniawan (1975).

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