Njoo Cheong Seng

Njoo Cheong Seng was a ChineseIndonesian playwright and film director. Also known by the pen name Monsieur dAmour, he wrote more than 200 short stories, novels, poems, and stage plays during his career he is also recorded as directing andor writing eleven films. He married four times during his life and spent several years travelling throughout southeast and south Asia with different theatre troupes. His stage plays are credited with revitalising theatre in the Indies.

Njoo was born in East Java on 6160November 1902 the Indonesian sinologist Leo Suryadinata writes that he was born in Surabaya, while the writers Sam Setyautama and Suma Mihardja record him as having been born in Malang. He received his elementary education at a Tiong Hoa Hwe Koan school in Surabaya. By an early age he had begun contributing to Chineseowned newspapers his first literary work, Tjerita Penghidoepan Manoesia , was published in Sin Po in 1919.

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