Booklet The S.E.A. Write Award 0f 2007

Menurut informasi yang saya dapat bahwa setiap penerima penghargaan The S.E.A. Write Award diharuskan memberi kata sambutan dan membuat buku pada saat penyerahan hadiah.  Saya sudah menyiapkan kata sambutan serta bahan –bahan untuk buku dalam bahasa Inggris dengan bantuan Bapak Untung Subagyo,  ternyata pada tahun 2007 ini ada perubahan bahwa tidak ada kata sambutan tapi penerima penghargaan harus membacakan suatu puisi.  Waduh… pusing deh  !!! selama ini saya belum pernah membaca puisi, apalagi di depan public dan menggunakan bahasa Inggris lagi.  Akhirnya saya pilih puisi bahasa Jawa dan  Indonesia yang saya terjemahkan ke bahasa Inggris dengan bantuan anak saya Tenno Singgalang yang saat ini menemani saya pergi ke Bangkok, Thailand.

Berikut Puisi yang akan saya bacakan di Bangkok, Tahiland :

Puisi ini berasal dari bahasa Indonesia :

Sparrow bird is tweet,In the nest, round and round,The world is small, feel like squeeze

Difficult and hard to switching

yang ini saya ambil dari bahasa Jawa :

White starlings birds,The game are setup,Come on all friends,Have fun together,Make the noise,Be arranged,Make the country happy,(Sing like a Gamelan sound)  Form a line, surround The Sacred Banyan tree, completelyIn the count, do not miss anyone,The officials are see,The officials are watch,They can help and give the food. 

Sedangkan bukunya ditulis dalam bahasa Indonesia dan Bahasa Inggris diterbitkan oleh Pusat Bahasa Departemen Pendidikan Nasional Jalan Daksinapati Barat IV, Rawamangun 13220, Jakarta

PUSAT BAHASA INDONESIA
DEPARTEMEN PENDIDIKAN NASIONAL

Published by National Language Center Ministry of National EducationJalan Daksinapati Barat IV, Rawamangun,

Kata sambutan dari Dr. Dendy Sugono sebagai berikut :

PREFACETHE HEAD OF THE NATIONAL LANGUAGECENTERMINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION 

Since 1979 The S.E.A. Write Awards has been given to prolific writers in South East Asian countries.  In relation to this, National

Finally, I would like to express my sincere thanks to those who enabled this booklet to be published.

Jakarta, September 2007
Dr. Dendy Sugono

Kata sambutan yang saya siapkan untuk penerimaan penghargaan sebagai berikut :

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH OF THE S.E.A. WRITE AWARD 2007 

Your Excellency,

Crown Prince of

Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn,

Ministers,

Ambassadors,

Committee of S.E.A. Write Award,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have written since 1950.  At that time I wrote due to earn a living, and writing became my choice.  As a matter of fact, my writings were always turned down by editorial staffs.  And not until 1952 one of my writings appeared on a newspaper.  Furthermore I lived not by writing was instead I earned for a living through various kinds of job.  However, writing was inescapable from my living activities throughout my life, although I had not resulted in reliable compositions to earn for a living.  So far I have composed 125 books titles, none of them was reprinted, nor translated to foreign languages.  It indicates that quality of my compositions is poor.  Taking it into account, until I am old, I have never won prime prizes at national (Indonesia) lever in the writing field.  Being aware of it, up to now being healthy and capable, I keep on writing works as an act of devotions, mandate and blessing.

It is very touching, cheering up and surprising, when I have been in my twilight age and adhered to philosophy of accepting the real facts, that  writing activity is an act of devotions, mandate and blessing, I was informed that I won The S.E.A Write Award.  Really, it is miraculous.  In my own country, I have never reached “national name”, now I am awarded as an author at the level of “south east Asia”.

Herewith I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to executive committee of The S.E.A. Write Award of 2007, as well as jurors that have selected me as The  Man of Letters and honored to get the prize.  My family and I are really proud of the prize.  Perhaps it is not enough just to be proud of it, but I must be responsible to maintain and improve my authorship, both facets of quality and may activities, hence of The S.E.A. Write Award of 2007 did not mistakenly select me recipient of The S.E.A. Write Awards of 2007.  Though I felt miraculous, I am sure that the prize not just comes out of the blue.  Jurors selected me this year, of course, with judicious reasons, even though not the quality of my works; instead the quality of my activities that became consideration, namely my exertions in writing struggles.  Even though my writings often ended up in failures, yet I did not want to lose.  Despite at the beginning I wrote to earn a living, and then unsuccessful to be my main livelihood, yet I have made writing as my living activity foundation for the rest of my life.  Anyhow, Literature Prize of the S.E.A. Write Awards of 2007 is not just a coincidence, yet in terms of my activities to carry out acts of devotions, mandate, and blessing.

Thank you.

Suparto Brata

Adapun Dewan Juri Pemilihan Sastrawan Indonesia Penerima Hadiah Sastra Asia Tenggara 2007 adalah sebagai berikut :

Penanggung Jawab

Dendy Sugono

Kepala Pusat Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional

Ketua

Sapardi Djoko Damono

Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya, Universitas Indonesia

Sekretaris

Melani Budianta

Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya, Universitas Indonesia

Anggota

Jakob Sumardjo

Sastrawa

Abdul Rozak Zaidan

Pusat Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional

Prih Suharto

Pusat Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional

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