![]() ![]() ![]() It was in Buru that Pramoedya created “the Quartet”. He was imprisoned on the Maluku island of Buru in Eastern Indonesia. ![]() He was sentenced to prison by the Dutch from 1947 to 1949, and again from 1969 to 1979 by the Suharto regime. Pramoedya’s body of work, which covered colonial life in Indonesia under the Dutch and the authoritarian regimes that had followed, had been a thorn in the side of all three. The works are now known as the “Buru Quartet”. Lane went on to translate the book’s three sequels: “Child of all nations”, “Footsteps" and "House of glass”. He was pulled back to Australia for having the audacity to translate a banned book. Max Lane was working for the Australian embassy in Indonesia in the 1980s when he began translating Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s “This earth of mankind”, a book banned by Indonesia’s military dictator Suharto. ![]()
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