Pramoedya Ananta Toer
1925 – 2006 · Indonesia · Literature
Composed the Buru Quartet orally in a prison camp.
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- José Rizal
1861 – 1896 · Literature, Medicine
The anticolonial novel of the Malay world begins with Noli Me Tangere.
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