Marah roesli biography definition
Marah roesli biography definition us history!
Marah Roesli
Indonesian writer
Marah Roesli ([ˈmarahˈrusli]; full name: Marah Rusli bin Abu Bakar) was an Indonesian writer.
Marah roesli biography definition
Biography
Marah Roesli was born in Padang, West Sumatra on 7 August 1889, and died in Bandung, West Java on 17 January 1968. He was one of the most well-known Indonesian authors from the Balai Pustaka period.
He is famous for his novel Sitti Nurbaya, which tells the story of a teenage girl who was forced to marry a man much older than herself to recompense his father's debt. Like other Minangkabau authors, such as Hamka, Ali Akbar Navis, and Abdul Muis, his novels centre on the theme of the increasingly bankrupt Minangkabau culture.
Marah roesli biography definition wikipedia
Marah Roesli's father, Sultan Abu Bakar, was a nobleman with the rank Sultan Pangeran. Against his family's wishes, Marah Roesli married a Sundanese woman born in Bogor in 1911, and they had three children, two boys and one girl.
Although this marriage was strongly abhorred by his parents, he did not give i