Linus Suryadi AG

Linus Suryadi AG
Born Linus Suryadi Agustinus
3 March 1951
Trimulyo, Sleman, Central Java
Died 30 July 1999
Yogyakarta, Central Java
Pen name Linus Suryadi AG, Linus Suryadi AGN
Occupation Writer
Language Indonesian
Nationality Indonesia
Genre Poetry
Notable works Pengakuan Pariyem (Pariyem's Confession)

Linus Suryadi Agustinus, commonly known Linus Suryadi AG or Linus Suryadi AGN was born in Trimulyo, Sleman, on 3 March 1951 and died in Yogyakarta on 30 July 1999 at the age of 48.[1]

Linus Suryadi studied at IKIP Sanata Dharma and began publishing poems and essays while still in his late teens.[2] He studied English in college but left before completion, and worked on various newspapers and magazines in Yogyakarta.[3] According to Harry Aveling, Suryadi's prose-lyric Pengakuan Pariyem (Pariyem's Confession) attracted considerable attention for its bold use of Javanese words and phrases.[4] In Pengakuan Pariyem, Suryadi describes the life of a female servant of a noble family which is limited by the traditions of the court town of Yogyakarta. Even though this prose poem was hailed as a penetrating analysis of culture that reveals Javanese social life, Niels Mulder suggests that it is basically an idealization of a system of values that belongs to the past.[5]

In 1982, Linus Suryadi AG studied at the International Writing Program in Iowa in the U.S.[4] He was a member of the Yogyakarta Arts Council and was the editor of Citra Yogya, a journal of art and culture.[6]

Linus Suryadi AG was also the editor of Tonggak: Antologi Puisi Indonesia Modern (The Beginning: Anthology of Modern Indonesian Poetry), a four volume set of Indonesian poetry that spans 60 years, from the 1920s to the 1980s [7]

According to E. Ulrich Kratz, Linus Suryadi AG, along with Ahmad Tohari, Aspar, Gerson Poyk, Korrie Layun Rampan, Umar Kayam and Wildan Yatim are Indonesian authors who "consciously and successfully have made an Indonesian regional setting the focus of their prose fiction."[8]

Selected works

Works by Linus Suryadi AG can also be found in the following anthologies:

References

  1. ↑ Rampan, Korrie Layun (2000). Leksikon Susastra Indonesia [Lexicon of Indonesian Literature] (in Indonesian) (First ed.). Jakarta: Balai Pustaka. pp. 262–263. ISBN 979-666-358-9.
  2. ↑ Brown, Iem; Davis, Joan, eds. (1995). Di serambi = On the verandah : a bilingual anthology of modern Indonesian poetry. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. pp. 106–107. ISBN 0-521-47202-4.
  3. ↑ McGlynn, John H., ed. (2001). Manhattan sonnet : Indonesian poems, short stories, and essays about New York. Jakarta: Lontar Foundation. p. 93. ISBN 979-8083-40-7.
  4. 1 2 Aveling, Harry (2001). Secrets Need Words: Indonesian Poetry 1966–1998. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies. p. 368. ISBN 0-89680-216-7.
  5. ↑ Mulder, Niels (1983). "Individual and Society in Contemporary Thailand and Java: An Anthropologist's Comparison of Modern Serious Fiction". Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. Cambridge University Press on behalf of Department of History, National University of Singapore. 14 (2): 312–327. doi:10.1017/S0022463400010997. JSTOR 2658818.
  6. ↑ McGlynn, John H., ed. (1990). Walking westward in the morning : seven contemporary Indonesian poets. Jakarta: Lontar Foundation in collaboration with SOAS. ISBN 979-8083-03-2.
  7. ↑ Duryadi AG, Linus, ed. (1987). Tonggak : antologi puisi Indonesia modern (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Gramedia. ISBN 979-403-106-2. LCCN 87943233. OCLC 20672288.
  8. ↑ Dingwall, Alastair, ed. (1994). Traveller's literary companion to South-east Asia. Brighton: In Print. p. 312. ISBN 1-873047-25-8.

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