Annie Tucker

Authors / Translator

The recipient of a 2013 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for her translation of Eka Kurniawan’s Beauty Is A Wound.

In the Headlines

Words Without Borders / Translations
May 02, 2023

Anna and Her Daughter’s Partner

Baffler / Translations
Oct 17, 2022

Letters and Fists, Notes of an Indonesian writer

Popula / All Things Books
Aug 07, 2018

Of Sleeping Birds and Limp Dicks

Margins / Translations
Nov 08, 2017

A Short Story About Acceptance and Loss by Eka Kurniawan

IDWRITERS / Translations
Jan 01, 2016

An Excerpt from “Beauty is a Wound”

PEN America / As Seen On
Sep 09, 2013

Annie Tucker on Translating Eka Kurniawan

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

The Dog Meows, The Cat Barks, by Eka Kurniawan

A Dark Tale from Cottonwood Grove, by Mahfud Ikhwan

Kitchen Curse, by Eka Kurniawan

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, by Eka Kurniawan

Work(s) in Translation

Anna and Her Daughter’s Partner, by Laksmi Pamuntjak (May 02, 2023)

Letters and Fists, Notes of an Indonesian writer, by Eka Kurniawan (Oct 17, 2022)

Koh Su, by Puthut EA, published in Transpacific Literary Project: Residue (Nov 08, 2017)

A Short Story About Acceptance and Loss by Eka Kurniawan, by Eka Kurniawan, published in VICE: The September Stories Issue (Sep 20, 2017)

Dimples, by Eka Kurniawan, published in The White Review — January 2016 Translation Issue (Jan 01, 2016)

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Annie Tucker

In the Headlines

Words Without Borders / Translations
May 02, 2023