Rio Johan
Rio Johan was born in Baturaja, South Sumatra, 1990. Rio has been invited to speak at The Ubud Reader's & Writer's festival (2015), was on a sponsored residency in Berlin, Germany (2016) and has been the recipient of the 2014 Prose Book of Choice by Tempo for his short story collection, "Aksara Amananunna", and the 2018 Khatulistiwa Literary Award for his novel, "Ibu Susu".
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Safar Nurhan lahir di Banggai Laut, Sulawesi Tengah. Sekarang tinggal di Jakarta Timur.
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Nirwan Dewanto
Nirwan Dewanto (born 28 September 1961) is an Indonesian poet and cultural critic. He is also known for his depiction of Albertus Soegijapranata in the 2012 biopic Soegija.
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Dewanto was born in Surabaya, East Java, on 28 September 1961. While still in senior high school he was already writing poetry; the poems were published in local magazines such as Kuncung and Kartini. Dewanto did his university studies at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Bandung, West Java, from 1980 to 1987, where he received a degree in geology. He then moved to Jakarta.
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Marianne Katoppo
Born in Tomohon, North Sulawesi, on 9 June 1943, Katoppo studied theology from 1963 at the Jakarta Theological Seminary, Sekolah Tinggi Teologi.
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In 1979, Katoppo spoke about "Asian Theology: An Asian Woman's Perspective" at the first Asian Theological Conference in Sri Lanka. She served the ecumenical idea as a member of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT), and was part of the executive committee of the Indonesian National Council of Churches (PGI). She has been described as "independent, forthright, and conversant in a dozen Asian and European languages", and was internationally known as a female theologian. Katoppo died in Bogor on 12 October 2007.
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Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
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Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the -
Laksmi Pamuntjak
Laksmi Pamuntjak is a bilingual Indonesian novelist, poet, food writer, journalist and co-founder of Aksara Bookstore. She works as an art and food consultant and writes for numerous local and international publications including opinion articles for the Guardian.
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She is the author of two collections of poetry (one of which, Ellipsis, appeared in the 2005 Herald UK Books of the Year pages); a treatise on the relationship between man and violence based on the Iliad; a collection of short stories based on paintings; five editions of the best-selling and award-winning Jakarta Good Food Guide; two translations of the works of Indonesian poet and essayist Goenawan Mohamad; and two bestselling novels.
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Eka Kurniawan
Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya in 1975 and completed his studies in the Faculty of Philosophy at Gadjah Mada University. He has been described as the “brightest meteorite” in Indonesia’s new literary firmament, the author of two remarkable novels which have brought comparisons to Salman Rushdie, Gabriel García Márquez and Mark Twain; the English translations of these novels were both published in 2015—Man Tiger by Verso Books, and Beauty is a Wound by New Directions in North America and Text Publishing in Australia. Kurniawan has also written movie scripts, a graphic novel, essays on literature and two collections of short stories. He currently resides in Jakarta.
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Budi Darma
Budi Darma lahir di Rembang, Jawa Tengah, 25 April 1937. Semasa kecil dan remaja ia berpindah-pindah ke berbagai kota di Jawa, mengikuti ayahnya yang bekerja di jawatan pos. Lulus dari SMA di Semarang pada 1957, ia memasuki Jurusan Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra dan Kebudayaan, Universitas Gadjah Mada.
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Lulus dari UGM, ia bekerja sebagai dosen pada Jurusan Bahasa Inggris—kini Universitas Negeri Surabaya—sampai kini. Di universitas ini ia pernah memangku jabatan Ketua Jurusan Inggris, Dekan Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, dan Rektor. Sekarang ia adalah guru besar dalam sastra Inggris di sana. Ia juga mengajar di sejumlah universitas luar negeri.
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Ratih Kumala
Ratih Kumala, lahir di Jakarta, tahun 1980. Buku pertamanya, novel berjudul Tabula Rasa (Grasindo 2004, GPU 2014), memenangkan Sayembara Menulis Novel Dewan Kesenian Jakarta 2003. Novel keduanya, Genesis (Insist Press, 2005). Kumpulan cerita pendeknya, Larutan Senja (Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2006). Buku keempat berjudul Kronik Betawi (novel/GPU, 2009) yang sebelum terbit sebagai buku juga terbit sebagi cerita bersambung di harian Republika 2008. Buku kelimanya berjudul Gadis Kretek (GPU, 2012) dan buku keenamnya adalah Bastian dan Jamur Ajaib (GPU, 2015). Novelnya Gadis Kretek (GPU, 2012) masuk dalam Top 5 kategori prosa Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2012, dan telah diterjemahkan ke Bahasa Inggris –Cigarette Girl (GPU, 2015), bahasa Jerman – D
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Leila S. Chudori
Leila Salikha Chudori adalah penulis Indonesia yang menghasilkan berbagai karya cerita pendek, novel, dan skenario drama televisi.Leila S. Chudori bercerita tentang kejujuran, keyakinan, dan tekad, prinsip dan pengorbanan. Mendapat pengaruh dari bacaan-bacaan dari buku-buku yang disebutnya dalam cerpen-cerpennya yang kita ketahui dari riwayat hidupnya ialah Franz Kafka, pengarang Jerman yang mempertanyakan eksistensi manusia, Dostoyewsky pengarang klasik Rusia yang menggerek jauk ke dalam jiwa manusia. D.H Lawrence pengarang Inggris yang memperjuangkan kebebasan mutlak nurani manusia, pengarang Irlandia James Joyce, yang terkenal dengan romannya Ullysses. Suatu pelaksanaan proses kreatif Stream of Consciousnes, Herman Jesse, Freud, Erich Fr
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Intan Paramaditha
Intan Paramaditha menulis buku Sihir Perempuan, kumpulan cerita pendek yang masuk lima besar Khatulistiwa Literary Award pada tahun 2005; Kumpulan Budak Setan (2010), sebuah tribut untuk penulis horor Abdullah Harahap yang ditulis bersama Eka Kurniawan dan Ugoran Prasad; naskah drama Goyang Penasaran (Intan Paramaditha & Naomi Srikandi, ed, KPG 2013), diadaptasi dari cerpennya dan dipentaskan oleh Teater Garasi di Yogyakarta dan Teater Salihara, Jakarta. Ia mendapat penghargaan sebagai cerpenis terbaik Kompas 2013 lewat cerpen "Klub Solidaritas Suami Hilang." Pada tahun 2017 ia menerbitkan Gentayangan: Pilih Sendiri Petualangan Sepatu Merahmu, novel dengan alur beragam yang terpilih sebagai karya sastra bidang prosa terbaik pilihan Tempo 20
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Nirwan Dewanto
Nirwan Dewanto (born 28 September 1961) is an Indonesian poet and cultural critic. He is also known for his depiction of Albertus Soegijapranata in the 2012 biopic Soegija.
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Dewanto was born in Surabaya, East Java, on 28 September 1961. While still in senior high school he was already writing poetry; the poems were published in local magazines such as Kuncung and Kartini. Dewanto did his university studies at the Bandung Institute of Technology in Bandung, West Java, from 1980 to 1987, where he received a degree in geology. He then moved to Jakarta.
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Okky Madasari
Okky Madasari is an Indonesian novelist. She is well-known for her social criticism with her fiction highlighting social issues, such as injustice and discrimination, and above all, about humanity. In academic field, her main interest is on literature, censorship and freedom of expression, and sociology of knowledge.
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Since 2010 Okky has published 10 books, comprising of five novels, one short-story collection, three children’s novels and one non-fiction book. Her newest book (2019) is Genealogi Sastra Indonesia: Kapitalisme, Islam dan Sastra Perlawanan or “Genealogy of Indonesian Literature: Capitalism, Islam and Critical Literature”, which is published online and can be freely downloaded from her website www.okkymadasari.net. Okky’s novels -
Zaky Yamani
Zaky Yamani was born in Bandung City, July 27th 1978. He worked as a journalist and editor for the Pikiran Rakyat daily from 2002 until 2016. He graduated with an MA in Journalism from Ateneo de Manila University assisted by a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism (2006 - 2008). Zaky also writes fiction, in the form of novels and short-stories.
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Books published include Johnny Mushroom and Other Stories (2011), Thirst in the Water Field (2012), Coffee-bitter Comedy (2013), Bandar: Family, Blood, and Inherited Sins (2014), and Running Amok (2016). All of his books were written in Indonesian language
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Mahfud Ikhwan
Mahfud Ikhwan lahir di Lamongan, 7 Mei 1980. Lulus dari Jurusan Sastra Indonesia, Universitas Gadjah Mada, tahun 2003 dengan skripsi tentang cerpen-cerpen Kuntowijoyo. Menulis sejak kuliah, pernah menerbitkan cerpennya di Annida, Jawa Pos, Minggu Pagi, dan di beberapa buku antologi cerpen independen.
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Bekerja di penerbitan buku sekolah antara 2005–2009 dan menghasilkan serial Sejarah Kebudayaan Islam untuk siswa MI berjudul Bertualang Bersama Tarikh (4 jilid, 2006) dan menulis cergam Seri Peperangan pada Zaman Nabi (3 jilid, 2008). Novelnya yang sudah terbit adalah Ulid Tak Ingin ke Malaysia (2009) dan Lari Gung! Lari! (2011). Novelnya yang ketiga, Kambing dan Hujan, memenangkan Sayembara Novel Dewan Kesenian Jakarta 2014.
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Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Norman Erikson Pasaribu was born in Jakarta in 1990. His first short story collection Hanya Kamu yang Tahu Berapa Lama Lagi Aku Harus Menunggu (Only You Know How Much Longer I Should Wait) was shortlisted for the 2014 Khatulistiwa Literary Award for Prose. His debut poetry collection Sergius Mencari Bacchus (Sergius Seeks Bacchus) won the 2015 Jakarta Arts Council Poetry Competition, was shortlisted for the 2016 Khatulistiwa Literary Award for Poetry and named by Tempo as one of the best poetry collections of that year.
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You-Jeong Jeong
See also 정유정 .
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You-jeong Jeong was born in Hampyeong, South Korea. She initially trained and worked as a nurse. She is now South Korea's leading writer of psychological crime and thriller fiction and is often compared to Stephen King and Raymond Chandler.
You-jeong is the author of four novels including Seven Years of Darkness, which was named one of the top ten crime novels of 2015 by the German newspaper Die Zeit.
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Sasti Gotama
Sasti Gotama adalah seorang dokter yang mencintai aksara. Ia gemar mengintip sisi tergelap jiwa manusia dan melukiskannya dalam deretan karya. Karyanya telah dibukukan dalam Kumpulan Cerita Penafsir Mimpi (Indigo Publisher, 2019). Cerpen-cerpennya telah tersiar di media cetak dan media online Indonesia.
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Bukunya, Mengapa Tuhan Menciptakan Kucing Hitam (Diva Press, 2020), masuk dalam 5 besar buku sastra pilihan Tempo 2020, menjadi nominee Penghargaan Sastra Badan Bahasa Kementrian Pendidikan, Kebudayaan, Riset, dan Teknologi 2021, dan pemenang I Hadiah Sastra “Rasa” 2022. -
Emi Yagi
Emi Yagi is an editor at a Japanese women’s magazine. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Diary of a Void is her first novel; it won the Dazai Osamu Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work of fiction.
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Andre Septiawan
Andre Septiawan adalah seorang penulis muda berbakat yang lahir di Pariaman, Sumatera Barat, pada tahun 1995, telah mengukir namanya dalam kancah sastra Indonesia. Pada tahun 2018, alumnus Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Andalas ini mendapat pengakuan internasional setelah tampil sebagai salah satu Emerging Writers di Ubud Writer and Reader Festival 2018. Karya-karyanya pun kerap mendapatkan apresiasi dari berbagai platform sastra terkemuka. Novel perdananya, Inyik Balang berhasil memenangkan hadiah Sastra Ayu Utami untuk Pemula. "RASA" 2025 dan sempat masuk ke dalam daftar pendek buku prosa pilihan Tempo pada 2024 dan daftar Panjang Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa pada tahun 2025
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Hamsad Rangkuti
Cerpen-cerpennya dimuat dalam berbagai harian dan majalah dalam dan luar negeri. Beberapa cerita pendeknya diterjemahkan dalam bahas Inggris dan Jerman.
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Kumpulan cerpennya yang telah terbit adalah Lukisan Perkawinan (1982), Cemara (1982), Sampah Bulan Desember (2000) dan Bibir dalam Pispot (2003).
Novel pertamanya Ketika Lampu Berwarna Merah merupakan pemenang sayembara penulisan roman Dewan Kesenian Jakarta pada tahun 1981.