Dias Novita Wuri

She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Indonesia in Russian Studies in 2011. Since then she has worked at an arts and culture organization, Komunitas Salihara as a Program Assistant, before working at the Japan Embassy as a secretary of the deputy Ambassador until now. Loving the art of writing since she was young, she started publishing her work professionally in Koran Tempo newspaper. She compiled her short stories into a compilation called Seri Horoskop Scorpio which was written together with Ayu Utami and six other writers. Aside from writing prose, she’s also interested in translating fiction since translating works for the anthology Bienal Sastra Salihara 2013, and after inteverviewing an Italian translator, Giola Guerzoni, for an article in Jakartabeat.net¹

1. UWRF 2014 ↩