Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler,  (, ; ; ; ) adalah seorang penulis dan wartawan Hungaria-Inggris. Koestler lahir di Budapest dan belajar di Austria. Pada 1931, Koestler masuk Partai Komunis Jerman sampai ia mundur pada 1938, karena tak menyenangi Stalinisme. Pada 1940, ia menerbitka novel Darkness at Noon, sebuah karya anti-totalitarian yang memberikannya ketenaran mancanegara. Sepanjang 43 tahun berikutnya, dari kediamannya di Inggris, Koestler mengamati banyak peristiwa politik, dan penulis novel, memoir, biografi dan sejumlah esai. Pada 1968, ia dianugerahi Penghargaan Sonning "atas jasa menonjolnya terhadap budaya Eropa". Pada 1972, ia diangkat menjadi Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Pada 1976, ia didiagnosa terserang Penyakit Parkinson. Pada 1979, ia terserang leukemia. Pada 1983, ia dan istrinya melakukan bunuh diri di rumah mereka di London.

Karya 

 Spanish Testament (1937)
 Darkness at Noon (1940)
 Arrival and Departure (1943)
 The God That Failed.

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan

Biografi Koestler 
 Atkins, J., 1956. Arthur Koestler.
 Buckard, Christian G., 2004. Arthur Koestler: Ein extremes Leben 1905–1983. .
 Cesarani, David, 1998. Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind. .
 Hamilton, Iain, 1982. Koestler: A Biography. .
 Koestler, Mamaine, 1985. Living with Koestler: Mamaine Koestler's Letters 1945-51.  or .
 Levene, M., 1984. Arthur Koestler. 
 Mikes, George, 1983. Arthur Koestler: The Story of a Friendship. .
 Pearson, S. A., 1978. Arthur Koestler. .
 Scammell, Michael, 2009. Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic . also published in UK as Koestler. The Indispensable Intellectual, London: Faber, 2010.

Pranala luar 

 Koestler CBC Radio December 14, 2011: Interview with biographer Michael Scammell on the Ideas podcast.
 Road Warrior Article in December 2009 issue of the New Yorker. Differs with the Wikipedia entry on many features of Koestler's biography.
 E., Holuber: Dostoevsky's Grandson
 Remembering Arthur Koestler
 Autobiographical Video-Interview with Arthur Koestler in French with German sub-titles and comments
 2007 City Journal article on Koestler 
 Arthur Koestler Project
 
 General Properties of Koestler's Open hierarchical Systems
 Hungarian site on Koestler
 Koestler's Legacy – Fortean Times article on the centenary of Koestler's birth
 Koestler Parapsychology Unit – Koestler and his third spouse left a large sum of money for research into parapsychology: this funded, among other things, the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at Edinburgh University
 Mystical Experiences of Arthur Koestler 
 
 The Koestler Trust 
 C-SPAN Q&A interview with Scammell about Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic, 10 January 2010

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