Tan Liep Poen

Tan Liep Poen (, b. 1906), also known by the Indonesian name Atmadi Asa, was a prolific Peranakan Chinese painter, writer, magazine editor, and playwright active in Malang, East Java from the 1920s to the 1970s. Biography Tan Liep Poen was born in Malang, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 20 August 1906. In the 1920s, he studied art by correspondence with Federal Schools, Inc., based in Minneapolis; he received a certificate in 1928. He also wrote literary criticism and articles about classical Chinese art for the newspaper Sin Po.

In 1945 he joined the theatre troupe , led by Njoo Cheong Seng and Djamaluddin Malik, working for them as a scene painter. He also started writing his own short stories and plays during this era. He became the associate editor of the Malang-based literary magazine Liberty in 1946.

His play (plastic bag) was performed on the radio in 1950, while (golden branch) was staged in Malang in 1952. He became a prolific writer for magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s, including for Liberal from Surabaya, from Jakarta, and in Liberty.

He continued to live in Malang into the 21st century. His exact date of death is not publicly known.