# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nur-sutan-iskandar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:26:50.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nur-sutan-iskandar"
name: "Nur Sutan Iskandar"
slug: "nur-sutan-iskandar"
description: "Muhammad Nur Sutan Iskandar, known as Nur Sutan Iskandar was born in Sungai Batang, West Sumatra on November 3, 1893 and died in Jakarta on November 28, 1975. He was prominent Indonesian author and most of productive writer in the Balai Pustaka generation. In 1919, he moved to Jakarta and joined to Balai Pustaka. He also translated novels by Alexandre Dumas, H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, and other."
tagline: "Indonesian writer (1893-1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nur_Sutan_Iskandar%2C_Pekan_Buku_Indonesia_1954%2C_p86.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-11-03"
deathDate: "1975-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.76
  momentum:             0.3603603603603605
  historical:           6.80414
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%83%D1%80_%D0%A1%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%98%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Нур Сутан Искандар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "نور سوتان إسكندر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Sutan_Iskandar"
    title: "Nur Sutan Iskandar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Sutan_Iskandar"
    title: "Nur Sutan Iskandar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Sutan_Iskandar"
    title: "Nur Sutan Iskandar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Sutan_Iskandar"
    title: "Nur Sutan Iskandar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Sutan_Iskandar"
    title: "Nur Sutan Iskandar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_Sutan_Iskandar"
    title: "Nur Sutan Iskandar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7070002"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump