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Chairil Anwar

1922 - 1949

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Chairil Anwar (26 July 1922 – 28 April 1949) was an Indonesian poet and member of the "1945 Generation" of writers. He is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems. Anwar was born and raised in Medan, North Sumatra, before moving to Batavia with his mother in 1940, where he began to enter the local literary circles. After publishing his first poem in 1942, Anwar continued to write. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Chairil Anwar is the 3,730th most popular writer (up from 4,050th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Indonesia (up from 51st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indonesian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Chairil Anwar ranks 3,730 out of 7,302. Before him are Stevan Sremac, Leslie Stephen, Georgette Heyer, Aphthonius of Antioch, Philipp Nicolai, and Pavel Bazhov. After him are Gioconda Belli, Mikhail Prishvin, Francisco Coloane, Dmitry Likhachov, Peter Gould, and Anthony Berkeley Cox.

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Among people born in 1922, Chairil Anwar ranks 232. Before him are Sabino Barinaga, Tom Finney, Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, Pio Laghi, Lennart Nilsson, and Dorothy Dandridge. After him are Joseph Mermans, Gerda Steinhoff, Richard Kiley, Carmen McRae, Hal Moore, and Sinan Hasani. Among people deceased in 1949, Chairil Anwar ranks 112. Before him are Jankel Adler, Fedor Ozep, Ehmetjan Qasim, Joaquín Torres-García, Kijirō Nambu, and Oton Župančič. After him are Uemura Shōen, Helen Churchill Candee, Elin Pelin, Sekiryo Kaneda, Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, and Émile Eddé.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Chairil Anwar ranks 41 out of 158. Before him are Ma'ruf Amin (1943), Sultan Agung of Mataram (1593), Ki Hajar Dewantara (1889), Hary Gunarto (1954), I Gusti Ngurah Rai (1917), and Fatmawati (1923). After him are Anneke Grönloh (1942), Pattimura (1783), Jusuf Kalla (1942), Valerie Mahaffey (1953), Arie de Jong (1865), and Agus Salim (1884).

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Among WRITERS In Indonesia

Among writers born in Indonesia, Chairil Anwar ranks 3. Before him are Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925), and Hella Haasse (1918). After him are Amir Hamzah (1911), Abdul Muis (1883), Nh. Dini (1936), Mochtar Lubis (1922), Xaviera Hollander (1943), Sapardi Djoko Damono (1940), Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana (1908), Jeroen Brouwers (1940), and Ayu Utami (1968).

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