Profile, Biography, Biodata, Andrea Hirata

Andrea Hirata Seman Said Harun well known as a novelist from Indonesia. Andrea Hirata was born on october 24, 1967. He comes from Belitung Island, Bangka Belitung, Indonesia.



He was a student of University of Indonesia, in economic faculty. He got scholarship to study master of science in Universite de Paris, Sorbonne, France and Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom.

His career as a novelist really blow up in Indonesia with his first novel "Laskar Pelangi", the best seller in 2006-2007.

His famous tetralogi novels are Laskar Pelangi, Sang Pemimpi, Edensor, Maryamah Karpov