caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality ethnicity birth_date language genre image article_title
situmorang , 1955 21 december 2014 apeldoorn , netherlands harianboho , north sumatra , dutch east indies indonesia indonesia batak 2 october 1923 indonesian poet , essayist , writer of short stories sitor situmorang kesusastraan modern indonesia p188.jpg sitor situmorang

sitor situmorang

sitor situmorang -lrb- october 2 , 1923 -- december 21 , 2014 -rrb- was an indonesian poet , essayist and writer of short stories .
situmorang was born in harianboho , north sumatra , and educated in jakarta .
he worked as a journalist and literary critic in medan , yogyakarta and jakarta for a variety of newspapers and periodicals .
sitor was considered by dutch scholar and critic of indonesian literature a. teeuw to be indonesia 's preeminent poet from angkatan ’45 -lrb- the generation of ' 45 -rrb- after the decease of chairil anwar .
`` his views were deeply influenced by french existentialism of the early fifties , and his poetic forms , as pointed by subagio , display remarkable similarities with french symbolism -lrb- subagio sastrowardojo 1976 -rrb- . ''
despite the european influence he is still deeply rooted in his batak culture .
