Susan Quimpo
In this article: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Written by Susan F. Quimpo, and was originally published in Rappler
Jul 09, 2013
Written by Susan F. Quimpo, and was originally published in Rappler
Jul 09, 2013
On Thursday, July 4, I decided to give my daughter and myself a rare treat. We headed to the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) to catch the last playdate of Benjamin Pimentel’s "Pramoedya."
In graduate school, I was introduced to the work of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, an Indonesian writer and Ramon Magsaysay awardee for literature. A nationalist, Pramoedya rebuked his writer colleagues for supposedly allowing themselves to be manipulated by the military in post-colonial Indonesia.
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