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Basuki Gunawan

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Basuki Gunawan


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in Banyumas, Indonesia
December 23, 1929

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Basuki Gunawan (1929-2014) was an Indonesian-Dutch writer, born in the Dutch East Indies. After WWII, he joined the Tentara Pelajar (‘Student Army’) to fight Dutch attempts to recolonise Indonesia. Later he travelled to the Netherlands to study sociology. A bout of tuberculosis led to his admission to the Netherlands Student Sanatorium, where he wrote his Dutch-language novella Winarta. As a manuscript this work received an honorary mention in 1953 for the prestigious Reina Prinsen Geerligs Prize and was serialised in a literary magazine the following year. Leading publisher Querido opened negotiations for a book publication before abandoning the project in 1955, explicitly citing political tensions between Indonesia and the Netherlands as ...more

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