Iwan Martua Lokot Dongan Simatupang, more commonly known as Iwan Simatupang was an Indonesian novelist, poet and essayist.
Education
After he was released, he graduated from high school in Medan. He studied in the faculty of medicine in Surabaya but did not graduate and studied Anthropology at the University of Leiden, 1954-1956. Undertook the Full Course of the International Institute for Social Studies at the Hague, 1957.
And Philosophy in Paris with Professor
Jean Wahl of the Sorbonne in 1958.
Career
He joined the Indonesian Student Army (TRIP) and was captured by during the Second Dutch Police Action against the Republic of Indonesia in North Sumatra (1949). He worked as a high school teacher in Surabaya, was editor of Siasat(Strategy) magazine, and editor of the Warta Harian (Daily News) (1966–1970). According to Benedict Richard O"Gorman Anderson, Iwan Simatupang and Putu Wijaya were the two "genuinely distinguished fictionalists" produced by Indonesia since Independence and both had a strong attachment to "magical realism".