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Guess what?: Poet Sitor Situmorang dies

Poet Sitor Situmorang (JP/P

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Mon, December 22, 2014 Published on Dec. 22, 2014 Published on 2014-12-22T10:30:39+07:00

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Poet Sitor Situmorang (JP/P.J.Leo)

JAKARTA: One of the country'€™s most prolific writers, poet Sitor Situmorang, passed away at his home in Apeldoom, the Netherlands on Sunday.

'€œI was very close to Sitor and I'€™m saddened by the news. He'€™s the last of Indonesia'€™s 1945-generation writers,'€ writer and historian JJ Rizal told Antara by phone on Sunday.

Born on Oct. 2, 1924 in Harianboho, a village by Lake Toba in the north of Sumatra, Situmorang was considered a man of many facets '€” a poet known for his musings on home in faraway France; a journalist, cultural observer and activist whose views led to him spending time in jail; and more.

The author was jailed for eight years without trial for his essay, Revolutionary Literature. He was a lecturer in the Netherlands for 10 years before returning to Indonesia. His 2001 work Paris La Nuit has been translated in to six languages.

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