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Pamela Allen
Authors / ReviewerAuthors / TranslatorTeaches Indonesian language and literature at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her research interests include contemporary Indonesian literature and popular culture, with a particular interest in postcolonial studies, gender issues and minority ethnic voices. Her translations of Indonesian short stories have been published in the Indonesian press and by Lontar. She is the English translator of Ayu Utami’s acclaimed novel Saman. She regularly interprets and translates for the Ubud Writers Festival in Bali.1
In the Headlines
University of Tasmania, Open Access Repository / Papers
Jun 12, 2007
Books — or in Translation(s)/Editing(s)
Work(s) in Translation
La Runduma, by Wa Ode Wulan Ratna, published in Crossing Boundaries: New Voices from Indonesia (Oct 14, 2016)
The Moon and the Magician in the Red Jacket, by Clara Ng, published in Myth and History: Writing from Indonesia (Aug 01, 2015)
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