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Jakarta Post / What Media Says
Feb 01, 2025

Awi Chin

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Awi Chin published his debut novel Yang Tak Kunjung Usai in 2020 by The Comma Books and Penerbit KPG. Now being translated by Zoe McLaughlin with its English title “The River Flows In You”. His short story compilation Biarkan Kematian Merayakan Kehidupan published by Buku Mojok in November 2022. He also won several short story competition and selected as Emerging Writer at Ubud Writer and Reader Festival 2022. His short story Sabur Limbur published by Portside Review in Australia with English title “In the Wake of a Dawn Prayer” and his poetry “The Piglet’s Lonely Note” will be featured in Charlotte Setijadi’s book “Memories of Unbelonging: Ethnic Chinese Identity Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia” published by Hawai’i University Press in 2023. He’s just finished his writing residency this month at Sweden by AIR Literature Västra Götaland – Gothenburg City of Literature.


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