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Pamela Allen

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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


  1. InterSastra 

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

La Runduma

IDWRITERS / Translations
Oct 14, 2016

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Aug 01, 2015

Voices from the unheard

Inside Indonesia / All Things Books
Jan 04, 2014

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New Writing / Writing
Dec 20, 2013

IDWRITERS

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


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