Interviews, essays and original works by Pramoedya in translation

Essays:

My Apologies, in the Name of Experience, Indonesia 61 (April 96)

2) .pdf version

Literature, Censorship and the State, Magsaysay Award speech (1995)

2) Compare to Marianne Katoppo's version

The Book that Killed Colonialism, New York Times Magazine (18 April 99) [backup]

Dictator From Day One, Time (24 May 99)

Sukarno, Time (23 August 99)

I Just Don't Believe in Her, Time (29 July 01) (backup link)

Pramoedya talks about Indonesia and Japan, Fukuoka lecture (2000)

Interviews:

Weekend Focus interview, Radio Netherlands (22 July 95)

Only a Storm in a Coffee Cup, 1995

I Have Closed the Book on Power, 1995

I Can Only Oppose with Words, Index on Censorship (Spring 97)

Interview by Sebastian Tong and Fong Foong Mei, (26 December 1996)

Democracy is an Individual Choice, ceri-sciences-po.org (8 August 98)

Mute No More, Salon (4 June 99)

Escaping Indonesia's iron fist in fiction, Los Angeles Times (6 June 99)

A Chat with Pramoedya, Michigan Today (Summer 99)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer Interview, The Progressive (October 99)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer interview, Pacifica Radio / Democracy Now (April 26, 1999)

Cabalgando el Siglo a Lomos del Tigre, interview with Alfonso Ormaetxea in Spanish (see attached)

Não espero nada do actual regime, Expresso (31 July 99) (in Portuguese) (see attached)

Short stories and other works:

"It's Not an All Night Fair", trans. William Watson, Indonesia. Volume 15 (1973)

"Revenge", trans. Ben Anderson, Indonesia. Volume 26 (1978)

"Mrs. Veterinary Doctor Suharko (Nyonya Dokterhewan Suharko)", trans. Benedict Anderson, Indonesia, Vol. 34, (Oct., 1982)

"Perburuan 1950 and Keluarga Gerilya 1950", trans. Benedict Anderson, Indonesia. Volume 36 (1983)

"Times", trans. Daniel T. Sicular, Indonesia. Volume 47 (1989)

"Blora", trans. Harold Merrill, Indonesia. Volume 53 (1992)

"Flunky + Maid (Djongos + Babu)", trans. James T. Siegel, Indonesia. Volume 61 (1996)

"My Kampung (Kampungku)", trans. Sumit K. Mandal, Indonesia. Volume 61 (1996)

"House (Rumah)", trans. Sumit K. Mandal, Indonesia. Volume 61 (1996)

"My Cell Mate", trans. James T. Siegel, Indonesia. Volume 64 (1997)

"In Twilight Born", trans. John H. McGlynn, Warscapes (July 2012)

Excerpt from The Girl from the Coast

On the occasion of Human Rights Day, December 10, 1992

Speech by Pramoedya Ananta Toer on the occasion of his swearing in as a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (21 March 99)

Tales from Djakarta: caricatures of circumstances and their human beings

All that is gone

The king, the witch, and the priest: a twelfth century Javanese tale

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