A children’s book author and illustrator born and raised in Indonesia. From a young age, she loved nothing more than telling stories and filling out papers—including school textbooks—with doodles. Stories and imagination are her safe places to escape from her challenging childhood. Despite … [Read more...]
Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee was born in Djakarta, Indonesia in 1957 to Chinese political exiles. Both of Lee’s parents came from powerful Chinese families: Lee’s great grandfather was the first president of the Republic of China, and Lee’s father had been the personal physician to Mao Zedong. In Indonesia, Dr. Lee … [Read more...]
Lia Tjokro
Lia Tjokro is a Chinese-Indonesian writer who was born and spent her childhood in Palembang, South Sumatra Island in Indonesia. During her teenage years, she moved to Singapore, then to the US where she earned her Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience. She worked for a few years as a … [Read more...]
Lian Gouw
Lian’s short stories and poems have appeared in Quietus Magazine, Writing for our Lives, Voices and Visions, The Highland’s Low Down and Reflections. Her Predicament, an earlier version of the first chapter of her novel, Only A Girl, was included in the 2006 anthology of the SF Writers Conference, … [Read more...]
Maria Dermoût
An Indo novelist, considered one of the greats of Dutch literature and as such an important proponent of Dutch Indies literature. In December 1958 Time magazine praised the translation of Maria Dermoût's The Ten Thousand Things, and named it one of the best books of the year among several other … [Read more...]
