Agam Wispi

Sumatra (1930). Wispi worked as a journalist in Jakarta and Medan from 1952 to 1962. He was press officer of the Indonesian Navy from 1962 to 1965. For political reasons, he moved to China where he lived from 1965 to 1970. After that he studied and worked at the Deutsche Bucherei in Leipzig. Since 1988 he lives in Amsterdam. Agam Wispi is primarily known as a poet, but he also wrote a play and several short stories. He translated Faust in Indonesian. His poems are well known and much loved in Indonesia. .
WN 2001