Do you know him?

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Friends,Do you know him?If you're not familiar with him and are interested, please click on his name below. A link to his short-biography in Wikipedia is available there.He is one of the greatest Indonesian writer.  Probably,it will change your thought,his Tetra-logy: “The Earth of Mankind”, “Child of All Nations”, “Footsteps” and “House of Glass” have been translated into many languages.

In this Tetra-logy is also brings a contribution to human culture as whole, in his fiction he examined many of the great dilemmas of the last century. In art he recreated oppressed and despised human beings awakening—in contradictory, uneven, and, at times, even atypical ways—to conscious struggle against the social forces that weighed upon them, in particular, imperialism before the Second World War. Pram wrote history of Indonesia with his own way.

 “We all have to accept reality, yes, that’s true. But just to accept reality and do nothing else, that is the attitude of human beings who have lost the ability to develop and grow, because human beings also have the ability to create new realities. And if there are no longer people who want to create new realities, then perhaps the word “progress” should be removed altogether from humankind’s vocabulary.” -Pramoedya Ananta Toer