Chairil Anwar

Indonesian poet (1922–1949)

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Born: ( 1922-07-26 ) 26 July 1922, Medan , Dutch East Indies
Died: 28 April 1949 (1949-04-28) (aged 26), Djakarta , Indonesia
Occupation: Poet
Language: Indonesian
Nationality: Indonesian
Period: 1942–1949
Literary movement: 1945 Generation
Notable works: Aku (1943)

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Chairil Anwar (26 July 1922 – 28 April 1949) was an Indonesian poet and member of the "1945 Generation" of writers. He is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems.

Anwar was born and raised in Medan, North Sumatra, before moving to Batavia with his mother in 1940, where he began to enter the local literary circles. After publishing his first poem in 1942, Anwar continued to write. However, his poems were at times censored by the Japanese, who were then occupying Indonesia. Living rebelliously, Anwar wrote extensively, often about death. He died in Jakarta of an unknown illness.