birth_place pseudonym nationality language birth_date article_title occupation
payakumbuh , west sumatra gus tf sakai indonesia indonesian 13 august 1965 gus tf sakai
 writer
gus tf sakai

gustafrizal busra or known as gus tf sakai , -lrb- born in payakumbuh , west sumatra , 13 august 1965 , age 48 years -rrb- , is an indonesian writer .
his name gus tf sakai is used when he writes proses , while gus tf used when he writes poems .
he settles in payakumbuh , west sumatra .
he graduated from elementary , middle , and high schools in payakumbuh .
then he went to the faculty of animal science , andalas university , padang -lrb- completed 1994 -rrb- .
his creativity evolved from his early childhood , which starts from the drawing , writing poems and essays on the diary .
his first publication was a short story that won a contest when he was in 6th grade , 1979 .
then he often join the competition and won .
after publishing his works with a variety of pseudonyms until the end of high school in 1985 , he decided to live by writing .
since then , he uses two names : gus and gus tf sakai .
in 1996 , he returned to payakumbuh .
together with his wife , zurniati , he decided to live and settle in the village with their three children .
some of his works have been translated into some languages .
a collection of short stories , ` kemilau cahaya dan perempuan buta '' , who won the lontar literary award 2001 and translated into english and published by the lontar foundation under the title `` the barber and other short stories ' ' , which was translated by justine fitzgerald , anna nettheim , and linda owens .
