Sitor Situmoran

Sitor Situmorang was born in North Sumatra, but from 1950 to 1953 he lived and studied in Amsterdam. In the 1950s Sitor actively participated in the ongoing cultural discourse on the shape and direction of Indonesia’s culture. Over the decades Sitor have won numerous awards for his work. Many of his works have been translated into English, French, Dutch, Chinese, Russian and other languages.