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Harry Aveling

Authors / Translator


Harry Aveling (Monash and La Trobe Universities, Melbourne) has translated extensively from Indonesian and Malay literatures. His most recent translations include Testimony by Rendra (translated with Burton Raffel and John McGlynn, Lontar, Jakarta 2015), and A Borrowed Body by Joko Pinurbo (Lontar, Jakarta 2015). He was Visiting Professor of English in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland during the Fall Semester 2014.

In the Headlines


The Biography of a Newborn Baby

Words Without Borders / Translations
Mar 05, 2019

“Sitti Nurbaja”: Some reconsiderations

BRILL / All Things Books
Jan 01, 1971


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



Work(s) in Translation



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