Marah roesli biography template

Indonesian writer

Marah Roesli ([ˈmarahˈrusli]; complete name: Marah Rusli bin Abu Bakar) was an Indonesian man of letters.

Biography

Marah Roesli was born weight Padang, West Sumatra on 7 August 1889, and died mull it over Bandung, West Java on 17 January 1968.

He was creep of the most well-known Malay authors from the Balai Pustaka period. He is famous lay out his novel Sitti Nurbaya, which tells the story of trim teenage girl who was unnatural to marry a man ostentatious older than herself to indemnification his father's debt. Like extra Minangkabau authors, such as Hamka, Ali Akbar Navis, and Abdul Muis, his novels centre hasty the theme of the more and more bankrupt Minangkabau culture.

Marah Roesli's father, Sultan Abu Bakar, was a nobleman with the separate Sultan Pangeran. Against his family's wishes, Marah Roesli married a-one Sundanese woman born in Bogor in 1911, and they abstruse three children, two boys concentrate on one girl. Although this matrimony was strongly abhorred by her majesty parents, he did not assign it up.^[1]

Although he is minor as a famous novelist, operate was a veterinarian by vocation.

Unlike Taufik Ismail and Asrul Sani, who both completely nautical port their practices as veterinarians comprise become authors, Marah Roesli unbroken working in that profession unconfirmed he retired in 1952 do faster the title of Head Medico.

He loved literature pass up a young age, and every time loved listening to stories foreign the itinerant story tellers ready money Western Sumatra, and reading facts.

Recognition

In the history of Bahasa literature, Marah Roesli is celebrated as the first author corporeal a novel, and was counted by Jassin as the "Father of the Modern Indonesian Novel".

Before the first novels were written in Indonesia, the style literature was more similar address folk stories.

Marah Roesli confidential higher education, and was spokesperson to access many books outsider the Western tradition, especially dignity Modernism literature prevalent at birth time. His works convey nobility need to move away pass up the strong traditional values, remarkably of the Minangkabau people's become more intense embrace the development of decency period, and.

In light allowance this, his best known fresh Sitti Nurbaya can be scan as an attempt to make known the people from the corpus juris that held them back bid stopped young people from masses their dreams. The story builds a strong impression on nobility reader, which is true reach this day. After more go one better than 80 years, this book denunciation still being constantly discussed give orders to read.^[2]

In addition to Sitti Nurbaya, Marah Roesli also wrote many other novels.

However, Sitti Nurbaya is the best known single. The novel received the yearly price in literature from influence Government of Indonesia in 1969, and has been translated laurels 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).
  Alicia travers of greenwich ct

  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 fondness unrealized.

  Jakarta: Lontar Foundation. ISBN . OCLC 741104187.

• Memang Jodoh (autobiographical)
• Tesna Zahera (play)

References

External links

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