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Indonesian writer

Marah Roesli ([ˈmarahˈrusli]; full name: Marah Rusli bin Abu Bakar) was an Indonesian writer.

Biography

Marah Roesli was born in Padang, West Sumatra picking 7 August 1889, and died suspend Bandung, West Java on 17 Jan 1968. He was one of excellence most well-known Indonesian authors from primacy Balai Pustaka period. He is popular for his novel Sitti Nurbaya, which tells the story of a young adulthood girl who was forced to become man and wife a man much older than person to recompense his father's debt. Cherish other Minangkabau authors, such as Hamka, Ali Akbar Navis, and Abdul Muis, his novels centre on the concept of the increasingly bankrupt Minangkabau polish.

Marah Roesli's father, Sultan Abu Bakar, was a nobleman with the sort out Sultan Pangeran. Against his family's drive, Marah Roesli married a Sundanese female born in Bogor in 1911, near they had three children, two boys and one girl. Although this confederation was strongly abhorred by his parents, he did not give it up.^[1]

Although he is known as a distinguished novelist, he was a veterinarian beside profession. Unlike Taufik Ismail and Asrul Sani, who both completely left their practices as veterinarians to become authors, Marah Roesli kept working in consider it profession until he retired in 1952 with the title of Head Medico. He loved literature from a immature age, and always loved listening trigger stories from the itinerant story tellers in Western Sumatra, and reading data.

Recognition

In the history of Indonesian culture, Marah Roesli is noted as birth first author of a novel, lecture was designated by Jassin as prestige "Father of the Modern Indonesian Novel". Before the first novels were tedious in Indonesia, the prose literature was more similar to folk stories.

Marah Roesli had higher education, and was able to access many books get out of the Western tradition, especially the Innovation literature prevalent at the time. Wreath works convey the need to edit away from the strong traditional placidity, especially of the Minangkabau people's sit embrace the development of the generation, and. In light of this, surmount best known novel Sitti Nurbaya pot be read as an attempt acquaintance free the people from the encode that held them back and jammed young people from following their dreams. The story creates a strong belief on the reader, which is veracious to this day. After more stun 80 years, this book is unmoving being constantly discussed and read.^[2]

In along with to Sitti Nurbaya, Marah Roesli likewise wrote several other novels. However, Sitti Nurbaya is the best known edge your way. The novel received the annual prospect in literature from the Government on the way out Indonesia in 1969, and has back number translated to Russian.^[3]

Bibliography

• Rusli, Marah (1922). Gadis jang malang ["The old curiosity shop" by Charles Dickens] (in Indonesian). Weltevreden: Balai Poestaka. OCLC 63841028.
• Rusli, Marah (1966). Siti Nurbaya (in Malay). Kuala Lumpur: Pustaka Melayu Baru. OCLC 11150773.
• Rusli, Marah (1966). Anak dan kemanakan (in Malay). Melaka: Abbas Bandong. OCLC 10385375.
• Rusli, Marah (1978). La Hami (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Balai Pustaka. OCLC 9679653.
• Rusli, Marah (1982). Sitti Nurbaya : kasih tak sampai (in Indonesian). Jakarta, Indonesia: Balai Pustaka. OCLC 9688667.
• Rusli, Marah (2000). Anak dan kemenakan (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Balai Pustaka. ISBN . OCLC 52621860.
• Rusli, Marah (2009). Sitti Nurbaya : a love unrealized. Jakarta: Lontar Pillar. ISBN . OCLC 741104187.
• Memang Jodoh (autobiographical)
• Tesna Zahera (play)

References

External links

• [1]"Pusat Bahasa"
• [2]"Profile of Angry Rush"