Sajak hujan sapardi djoko damono biography
Sajak hujan sapardi djoko damono biography
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Sapardi Djoko Damono
Biography
Sapardi Djoko Damono was born in Solo, Central Java, on 20 March 1940, and spent his childhood and adolescent years in his hometown. He studied English literature at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, and has translated many works of fiction and poetry from English into Indonesian.
He was editor of the Indonesian literary magazines Basis, Horison, and Kalam.
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Now he is Professor Emeritus at the University of Indonesia’s Faculty of Humanities.
With clear, unadorned language and delicate inwardness, Sapardi’s poems are in sharp contrast to the slogan-ridden language of the then ideologically polarised Indonesia. Those turbulent times saw Sapardi finding his own voice in brief, limpid poems with simple yet pregnant imagery fro