The Mentor from the east

Chairil Anwar wrote two poems for Laurens Koster Bohang. Bohang was his friend, elder brother and teacher, influencing both his thinking and creative works.

August 16, 2016

ONE of the new men of letters writers, he was not well-known to the public. He is not as famous as Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, founder of the Poedjangga Baroe magazine, or H.B. Jassin, literary critic and editor of Panji Pustaka. He is also not as well known as Amir Hamzah, the king of the new men of letters group.

Writer Laurens Koster Bohang did not leave many works behind either, other than some written under the female pseudonym of Airani Molito

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