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    Joan Suyenaga

    Authors / Translator

    Joan Suyenaga was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and earned an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Hawaii. She began studying traditional Javanese music (gamelan) and language in the early 1970s, and has lived, raised a family, and worked in Yogyakarta for over 30 years as a freelance writer, translator, and editor focusing on Indonesian and Javanese culture.

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    From Abidah El Khalieqy’s Mataraisa

    IDWRITERS / Translations
    Nov 06, 2015

    From Abidah El Khalieqy’s Mataraisa

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    IDWRITERS / Translations
    Aug 01, 2015

    Gendhis


    Books — or in Translation(s)/Editing(s)


    Geni Jora & Other Texts, by Abidah El Khalieqy 
    A Man Bathing & Other Poems, by Hanna Fransisca 

    Work(s) in Translation


    From Abidah El Khalieqy’s Mataraisa, by Abidah El Khalieqy, published in Reformations: Indonesian Literature in Translation (Nov 06, 2015)
    Gendhis, by Abidah El Khalieqy, published in Myth and History: Writing from Indonesia (Aug 01, 2015)

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