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Sitor Situmorang was born on 2 October, 1923 in Harianboho, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, is an Indonesian poet. Discover Sitor Situmorang's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

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Occupation poet, writer, journalist, university lector
Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 2 October 1923
Birthday 2 October
Birthplace Harianboho, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies
Date of death 21 December, 2014
Died Place Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Nationality Indonesia

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1923

Sitor Situmorang (2 October 1923 – 21 December 2014) was an Indonesian poet, essayist and writer of short stories.

Situmorang was born in Harianboho, North Sumatra, and educated in Jakarta.

He worked as a journalist and literary critic in Medan, Yogyakarta and Jakarta for a variety of newspapers and periodicals.

Sitor was considered by Dutch scholar and critic of Indonesian literature A. Teeuw to be Indonesia's preeminent poet from Angkatan '45 (The Generation of '45) after the decease of Chairil Anwar.

He was born in 1923 in North Tapanuli, North Sumatra and moved to Jakarta to study at AMS.

1945

He started his career as a journalist in North Sumatra at Suara Nasional (1945–1946) and Waspada (1947).

1947

He was assigned to Yogyakarta (1947–1948) and later worked for Berita Indonesia and Warta Dunia (1957).

1948

His first poem "Kaliurang" was written in 1948 in the style of Pujangga Baru and published at Siasat, ten years after he translated Saijah dan Adinda by Multatuli.

In the same year, he wrote a review of Gema Tanah Air, an anthology compiled by H.B. Jassin.

1950

During 1950 – 1953, he stayed in Amsterdam and Paris to observe European cultures, funded by a scholarship from a Netherlands foundation.

Since 1950, he was actively involved in cultural polemic, particularly on the shape and direction of Indonesia culture.

1954

He published Surat Kertas Hijau (Green Paper Letters) in 1954, a collection of poems, in which he expressed his emotional and intellectual crisis of love and national identity.

This publication established him as a prominent and respected poet.

1955

He was one of African American author Richard Wright's contacts and interlocutors during Wright's trip to Indonesia for the Asian-African Conference in 1955.

He became a prominent member of the Institute of National Culture (Lembaga Kebudayaan Nasional /LKN), which was closely tied to Sukarno, the President of Indonesia at the time.

1956

After graduating from AMS, he went to the US to further study cinematography at the University of California (1956–57).

When he grew up, Indonesia was under Dutch rule and a European-style education was provided only for a small minority of the population.

Therefore, during high school he studied mostly European literature and Dutch, which he found disturbing and provoked his sense of nationalism.

When he was 15, he was inspired to translate "Saijah and Adinda" (a poem), a part of Max Havelaar by Multatuli, from Dutch to Batak which was his mother tongue even though his Dutch was limited for this kind of literature.

This was the starting point of his interest in literature.

He began reading more and more Indonesian and western literature, and became inspired to work towards becoming a writer.

His brief stay in Paris influenced some of his works, such as Pertempuran dan Salju di Paris (1956, collection of short stories) and Paris la Nuit (2002, collection of poems).

He won awards for his works: Pertempuran dan Salju di Paris (Struggle and Snow in Paris), (1956, collection of short stories) from Jakarta Arts Council and Peta Perjalanan (Travel Guide ), (1976, collection of poems) from Badan Musawarat Kebudayaan Nasional

1967

In 1967, following the fall of Sukarno in 1965, he was imprisoned and was not released until 1976, without any trial.

1976

"His views were deeply influenced by French existentialism of the early fifties, and his poetic forms, as pointed by Subagio, display remarkable similarities with French symbolism (Subagio Sastrowardojo 1976)."

Despite the European influence he is still deeply rooted in his Batak culture.

1982

He was once taught Indonesian at Leiden University, Netherlands during 1982–1990.

2001

Some of his works have been translated to other languages such as : Paris La Nuit (Paris at Night, 2001), a collection of poetry, into French, English and Russian,

and Rindu Kelana into English.

2014

On 21 December 2014, he died at the age of 91 at his home in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

2018

His complete short stories have been translated and published in English in two volumes by Silkworm Books: Oceans of Longing: Nine Stories (2018) and Red Gerberas: Short Stories (2018).