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Sep 14, 2024
Lara Norgaard
Authors / ScholarAn editor, journalist, and translator. A graduate of Princeton University (B.A. Comparative Literature), she founded and directed Artememoria, a free-access, English-language arts magazine focused on the memory of Brazil’s civil-military dictatorship and served as Editor-at-Large in Brazil for Asymptote from 2017–2019. Her nonfiction reporting has been published in publications such as Agência Pública and The Princeton Echo, her literary criticism in The Jakarta Post and Peixe-elétrico, and her translations of fiction and non-fiction in Asymptote Journal. Currently, she is a Luce Scholar collaborating with the Lontar Foundation in Jakarta, Indonesia and a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
In the Headlines
Mascara Literary Review / What Media Says
Feb 16, 2020
Asymptote / What Media Says
Dec 09, 2019
Jakarta Post / As Seen On
Dec 08, 2019
Jakarta Post / All Things Books
Oct 11, 2019
Media Writing(s)
On Scars and Flying Horses: Lara Norgaard in Conversation with Linda Christanty, on Linda Christanty, published in Mascara Literary Review (Feb 16, 2020)
Putu Oka Sukanta and the Hidden Wounds of World History, on Putu Oka Sukanta, published in Asymptote (Jan 16, 2020)
Personal Histories, Sexual Politics: An Interview with Ayu Utami, on Ayu Utami, published in Asymptote (Dec 09, 2019)
Books — or in Translation(s)/Editing(s)
Work(s) in Translation
The March 4th Incident, by Sabda Armandio Alif (May 16, 2023)
At a Glance
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