Lie Kim Hok was a peranakan Chinese teacher, writer, and social worker active in the Dutch East Indies and styled the "father of Chinese Malay literature".
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Lie studied painting under Raden Saleh.
Cover of Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari, Lie's first published syair
Lie's former schoolmate Phoa Keng Hek, one of the Tiong Hoa Hwe Koan's founders
One sheet for the Wong brothers' Siti Akbari, said to be based on Lie's poem
Malajoe Batawi, 1884
Hikajat Khonghoetjoe, 1897Writers born in the 1850s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1853 to 1912 · aged 58
Written about in
11 languages
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