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Joesoef Isak
Writer
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An Indonesian publisher, translator, and left-wing intellectual. He was an advocate of free speech during President Suharto’s authoritarian New Order administration and was imprisoned from 1967 to 1977 without trial. In 1980, he helped found and direct the publishing house Hasta Mitra, publisher of Pramoedya A. Toer’s Buru Quartet. In 2005, Isak was the inaugural recipient of the Australian PEN Keneally Award for his work.
In the Headlines
Indonesia Southeast Asia And International Affairs, USYD / What Media Says
Sep 14, 2006
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