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That Friday, as late afternoon settled over Kuala Lumpur and early morning dawned in Rotterdam, a conversation unfolded that felt less like an interview and more like a quiet reconnection between two people from the same corner of the world. We found ourselves in that strange, shared space of the "overseas Javanese." I told her that even as a Malaysian, I understand Javanese perfectly, though speaking it feels weird.
"For us, Javanese is dying because everybody speaks Indonesian," she said, "and then at some point, Indonesian is dying because everybody speaks English."
Born in Jakarta in 1989, Dias Novita Wuri has spent years refining a voice that refuses to stay in one place. From her debut Makrame to the global release of Birth Canal (Jalan Lahir), she has become a writer who tracks the "in-between." Based near Rotterdam, married to a Dutch man and raising a seven-year-old son, she spoke candidly about the complex transition from her native language and the heavy, personal roots of her next project.
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