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Pramoedya Ananta Toer

1925 - 2006

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Pramoedya Ananta Toer (EYD: Pramudya Ananta Tur; 6 February 1925 – 30 April 2006), also nicknamed Pram, was an Indonesian novelist and writer. His works span the colonial period under Dutch rule, Indonesia's struggle for independence, its occupation by Japan during the Second World War, as well as the post-colonial authoritarian regimes of Sukarno and Suharto, and are infused with personal and national history. Pramoedya's writings sometimes fell out of favour with the colonial and later the authoritarian native governments in power. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pramoedya Ananta Toer has received more than 407,668 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Pramoedya Ananta Toer is the 1,573rd most popular writer (up from 1,677th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Indonesia and the most popular Indonesian Writer.

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  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pramoedya Ananta Toer ranks 1,573 out of 7,302. Before him are Robert Brasillach, Jean-François Marmontel, Jonas Lie, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sister Nivedita, and Gustav Landauer. After him are Ahmad ibn Mājid, Alistair MacLean, Eino Leino, Ruth Rendell, Jean Chapelain, and Alasdair Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Pramoedya Ananta Toer ranks 108. Before him are Ernesto Cardenal, Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, Lepa Radić, Robert Hardy, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, and Pierre Bérégovoy. After him are Michel Bouquet, Alexandre do Nascimento, Gore Vidal, Luciano Leggio, Aliya Moldagulova, and Warren Christopher. Among people deceased in 2006, Pramoedya Ananta Toer ranks 78. Before him are Floyd Patterson, Allen Carr, Sven Nykvist, Shin Sang-ok, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. After him are Milan Babić, Lillian Asplund, Billy Preston, John Money, Tina Aumont, and María Capovilla.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Pramoedya Ananta Toer ranks 17 out of 158. Before him are Prabowo Subianto (1951), Enrique of Malacca (1495), Mohammad Hatta (1902), Gajah Mada (1290), Jan Toorop (1858), and Kartini (1879). After him are George Uhlenbeck (1900), Diponegoro (1785), Dharmakirti (700), Ma'ruf Amin (1943), Anggun (1972), and Lil Dagover (1887).

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Among WRITERS In Indonesia

Among writers born in Indonesia, Pramoedya Ananta Toer ranks 1. After him are Hella Haasse (1918), Amir Hamzah (1911), 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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