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Nurhayati Srihardini Siti Nukatin Coffin (29 February 1936 – 4 December 2018), better known by her pen name Nh.Dini (sometimes NH Dini in English), was an Indonesian novelist and feminist.
This Earth of Mankind is the first book in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's epic quartet called Buru Quartet, first published by Hasta Mitra in 1980.The story is set at the end of the Dutch colonial rule and was written while Pramoedya was imprisoned on the political island prison of Buru in eastern Indonesia.
Salah Asuhan was written during the colonial period and published by Balai Pustaka, which published books "suitable for native Indonesian reading."In order to be published, books had to avoid themes of rebellion and use formal Malay. [1]
followed by an improbable object: "... a clockwork orange", or "... a four-speed walking stick" or "... a left-handed corkscrew" etc. predates Burgess's novel. [19] An early example, "as queer as Dick's hatband", appeared in 1796, [20] and was alluded to in 1757. [21] His second explanation was that it was a pun on the Malay word orang, meaning ...
[32] [38] Belenggu was the only novel published by the magazine [38] and the first Indonesian psychological novel. [1] In 1969, Belenggu received the first annual Literary Prize from the government of Indonesia, along with Marah Rusli 's Sitti Nurbaya (1922), Salah Asuhan , and Achdiat Karta Mihardja 's Atheis ( Atheist ; 1949).
Sunan Gunungjati was the only one of the Wali Songo to have assumed a sultan's coronet. He used his kingship — imbued with the twin authority of his paternal Hashemite lineage and his maternal royal ancestry — to propagate Islam all along the Pesisir, or northern coast of Java.
"Soerabaja" (Perfected Spelling "Surabaya", also known by the intermediary form "Surabaja") is a work of fiction by Indonesian writer Idrus variously described as a novel, [1] novelette, [2] and long short story. [3] It was published in 1946 or 1947.
Originally released as a serial, Van der Wijck was republished as a novel after favourable popular reception. Described by the socialist literary critic Bakri Siregar as Hamka's best work, the work came under fire in 1962 because of similarities between it and Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr 's Sous les Tilleuls ( Under the Limes ; 1832).