Mochtar Lubis

Mochtar Lubis
Mochtar Lubis
	Lubis in 1979
Born	7 March 1922; Padang, West Sumatra, Dutch East Indies
Died	2 July 2004 (aged 82); Jakarta, Indonesia
Citizenship	Indonesian
Awards	Ramon Magsaysay Award (1958, shared with Robert Dick), World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award, (1967);

Mochtar Lubis ([moxˈtar luˈbɪs]; 7 March 1922 – 2 July 2004) was an Indonesian Batak journalist and novelist who co-founded Indonesia Raya and monthly literary magazine "Horison". His novel Senja di Jakarta (Twilight in Jakarta in English) was the first Indonesian novel to be translated into English. He was a critic of Sukarno and was imprisoned by him.

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