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    Pamela Allen

    Authors / ReviewerAuthors / Translator

    Teaches 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

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    In the Headlines


    Where are all the Indonesian writers?

    National Centre for Writing / As Seen On
    Feb 22, 2019

    Where are all the Indonesian writers?

    La Runduma

    IDWRITERS / Translations
    Oct 14, 2016

    La Runduma

    IDWRITERS

    IDWRITERS / Translations
    Aug 01, 2015

    The Moon and the Magician in the Red Jacket

    Voices from the unheard

    Inside Indonesia / All Things Books
    Jan 04, 2014

    Voices from the unheard

    IDWRITERS

    New Writing / Writing
    Dec 20, 2013

    Labyrinth of Violence

    IDWRITERS

    University of Tasmania, Open Access Repository / Papers
    Jun 12, 2007

    Reading Matters: An Examination of Plurality of Meaning in Selected Indonesian Fiction, 1980-1995


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


    All Women Have Affairs & Other Stories, by Clara Ng 
    The Longest Kiss, by Leila S. Chudori 
    Saman: A Novel, by Ayu Utami 

    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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