Norman Erikson Pasaribu is an Indonesian poet whose work is both playful and intricate. Their first poetry book to be translated into English (by Tiffany Tsao, who also translated Happy Stories), Sergius Seeks Bacchus, won the pair a PEN Translates award. Norman is also a translator and editor, and … [Read more...]

Noviana Kusumawardhani used to be an advertising hotshot in Jakarta. She came to Ubud in 2007, and has spent a couple of years working full-time for Bali Spirit Festival. Nowadays, she’s cut her commitment to part-time, juggling her festival work with her own writing, animation, tarot reading, and … [Read more...]

Brigadier General Raden Panji Nugroho Notosusanto was an Indonesian short story writer turned military historian who served as professor of history at the University of Indonesia. Born to a noble family in Central Java, he exhibited a high degree of nationalism from a young age. During … [Read more...]

Reading books was encouraged in her family, and she credits some of her writing genes to her father, a judge who wrote law articles and later became a historian who wrote books on the history of North Maluku. She studied at the Bandung Tourism College, and worked in the hotel and financial sectors … [Read more...]