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In this article: Achdiat K Mihardja Ayu Utami Pramoedya Ananta Toer Putu Oka Sukanta Putu Wijaya Rendra, W. S. Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Originally published in UWRF News.
May 07, 2017
Originally published in UWRF News.
May 07, 2017
I began translating in my Honours year at ANU (1976), when I was asked by the Indonesian author Achdiat K. Mihardja, who was also an academic at ANU, if I would be interested in translating his novel Debu Cinta Bertebaran. It was a project that took me well beyond my Honours year and it wasn’t published until many years later, by the Australia Indonesia Association in Canberra. I discovered that I loved the process of translating. It provided an outlet for my creative instincts.
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