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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 379,648 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Pramoedya Ananta Toer is the 1,681st most popular writer (down from 1,669th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Indonesia and the most popular Indonesian Writer.

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pramoedya Ananta Toer ranks 1,681 out of 5,755Before him are Maria Gripe, Acusilaus, Alexander Polyhistor, Marin Držić, Camilla Läckberg, and Langston Hughes. After him are Edmond François Valentin About, José de Espronceda, Ibn al-Khatib, Dominique Venner, Juan Goytisolo, and Augusto Roa Bastos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Pramoedya Ananta Toer ranks 111Before him are Alexander Shulgin, Donald O'Connor, Aliya Moldagulova, Serge Moscovici, David Elazar, and Tofiq Bahramov. After him are Luciano Leggio, Masanori Tokita, Warren Christopher, John Guillermin, Pavel Belyayev, and Brian Aldiss. Among people deceased in 2006, Pramoedya Ananta Toer ranks 86Before him are Telê Santana, Sven Nykvist, Peter Benchley, Jane Jacobs, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Jack Warden. After him are Walerian Borowczyk, Robert Plutchik, Peter Norman, Prince George William of Hanover, Dürrüşehvar Sultan, and Igor Sergeyev.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Pramoedya Ananta Toer ranks 17 out of 126Before him are Mohammad Hatta (1902), Dharmakirti (700), Jan Toorop (1858), Laura Gemser (1950), Anggun (1972), and Diponegoro (1785). After him are Kartini (1879), George Uhlenbeck (1900), Hendrik Brouwer (1581), Lil Dagover (1887), Enrique of Malacca (1495), and Jusuf Kalla (1942).

Among WRITERS In Indonesia

Among writers born in Indonesia, Pramoedya Ananta Toer ranks 1After him are Hella Haasse (1918), Amir Hamzah (1911), Chairil Anwar (1922), Abdul Muis (1883), Xaviera Hollander (1943), Mochtar Lubis (1922), Sapardi Djoko Damono (1940), Ayu Utami (1968), and Eka Kurniawan (1975).