Chairil Anwar
Sign in to saveIndonesian poet (1922–1949)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1922-07-26 ) 26 July 1922, Medan , Dutch East Indies
- Died
- 28 April 1949 (1949-04-28) (aged 26), Djakarta , Indonesia
- Occupation
- Poet
- Language
- Indonesian
- Nationality
- Indonesian
- Period
- 1942–1949
- Literary movement
- 1945 Generation
- Notable works
- Aku (1943)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Medan
- Place of death
- Jakarta
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Meer Uitgebreid Lager Onderwijs
- Languages spoken
- Indonesian
- Image
- Chairil Anwar.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1922-07-26
- date of death
- 1949-04-28
- Commons category
- Chairil Anwar
- name
- Chairil Anwar
- start of work period
- 1942-00-00
- ethnic group
- Minangkabau
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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. However, his poems were at times censored by the Japanese, who were then occupying Indonesia. Living rebelliously, Anwar wrote extensively, often about death. He died in Jakarta of an unknown illness.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chairil Anwar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.