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'At least I've told these stories to you'

Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the Buru Quartet
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The ABR Podcast 01 March 2024

'At least I've told these stories to you'

Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the Buru Quartet
by
The ABR Podcast 01 March 2024

Hollier feature

 


 

This week on the ABR Podcast we tell the story behind Indonesia’s twentieth-century literary masterpiece, the Buru Quartet, a set of novels that began life in a jail cell. The Buru novels were written by Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, widely considered a potential winner of the Nobel Prize. Nathan Hollier, publisher at Australian National University Press, explains why the Buru novels hold special significance for Australia, even though, as he writes ‘few Australians have heard of them’. Listen to Nathan Hollier’s ‘”At least I’ve told these stories to you”: Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the Buru Quartet’, published in the March issue of ABR.

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Comment (1)

  • Love this one, Nathan. You put the Pramoedja story into the global, humanist politic frames where it belongs. Thanks so much for making this one!
    Posted by Julian Millie
    23 April 2024

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