In this article: A. W. Prihandita
By Nur Janti
Originally published in Jakarta Post.
Jun 28, 2025
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By Nur Janti
Originally published in Jakarta Post.
Jun 28, 2025
June has been a month of blessings for Anselma Widha Prihandita, who won a Nebula Award on June 7 for her novelette Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being, just days before earning a PhD in language and rhetoric from the University of Washington in the United States.
She is the first Indonesian author to earn recognition from the prestigious Nebula Awards, given annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
“This story is about resisting oppression both epistemic and material but above all it's about kindness. It's my way of saying that I hope we'll always find a way to be kind even to those we cannot understand,” she said during her acceptance speech.
She is the first Indonesian author to earn recognition from the prestigious Nebula Awards, given annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
“This story is about resisting oppression both epistemic and material but above all it's about kindness. It's my way of saying that I hope we'll always find a way to be kind even to those we cannot understand,” she said during her acceptance speech.
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