Chairil Anwar

Chairil Anwar wrote for Quest, the journal of ideas sponsored by the Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom, appearing in one issue of the archive’s run (No. 43 (OCT./DEC. 1964 (contents page); cover dated ‘autumn 1964’)).

Quest’s contributor note in No. 43 (OCT./DEC. 1964 (contents page); cover dated ‘autumn 1964’), p. 109 reads:

CHAIRIL ANWAR who died in 1949 at the age of 27 is regarded as “the forerunner of modern Indonesian literature and the most outstanding Indonesian poet”.