- Joesoef Isak
Joesoef Isak is an
Indonesia n publisher, translator, and left-wing intellectual. He was a strong advocate offree speech during President Suharto's authoritarian New Order administration, and was imprisoned from 1967-1977 without trial. In 1980, he helped found and direct the publishing house Hasta Mitra, publisher ofPramoedya A. Toer 'sBuru quartet .Educated in the Dutch colonial system, Isak did not speak Indonesian as a young man, [ [http://www.greenleft.org.au/2005/620/35117 "Joesoef Isak: A Life of Struggle,"]
Green Left Weekly ] but later became one of the language's most important proponents.Fact|date=September 2007 In 2005, Isak was the inaugural recipient of the Australian PEN Keneally Award for his work. [ [http://www.pen.org.au/index.php?menu=article&subMenu=4 "Australian PEN Keneally Award to Joesoef Isak"] ]References
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* [http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/maxlaneintlasia/2006/09/on_joesoef_isak.html Max Lane, "On Joesoef Isak"]
* [http://www.greenleft.org.au/2005/620/35117 "Joesoef Isak: A Life of Struggle,"Green Left Weekly .]Notes
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