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Sep 14, 2024
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Aug 09, 2024
Khairani Barokka
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Khairani Barokka is a translator, editor, writer and artist from Jakarta, with over two decades of professional translation experience. In 2023, Okka was shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards. Okka’s work has been presented widely internationally, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis, and access as translation. Among her honours, she has been a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, a Delfina Foundation Associate Artist, an Artforum Must-See, and Associate Artist at the UK’s National Centre for Writing. Okka’s books include Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis), Rope (Nine Arches), and Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (as co-editor; Nine Arches). Her latest books are Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the 2022 Barbellion Prize, and 2024’s amuk (Nine Arches).1
Book(s)
Amuk
Poetry Collection
page(s), Nine Arches Press
River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation
Essay Collection
228 page(s), Trace Press
Ultimatum Orangutan
Poetry Collection
80 page(s), Nine Arches Press
Rope
page(s),
Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back
Anthology
264 page(s), Nine Arches Press
Indigenous Species
52 page(s), Tilted Axis Press
Currently & Emotion: Translations
Anthology
352 page(s), Test Centre
Last Night on Earth
109 page(s), SSWA Press
In the Headlines
Words Without Borders / What Media Says
Nov 09, 2022
Penguin UK Articles / As Seen On
Sep 30, 2022
Publishing Perspectives / As Seen On
Jul 22, 2022
Penguin UK Articles / As Seen On
Jul 20, 2022
Sierra Magazine / What Media Says
May 15, 2021
Jakarta Post / As Seen On
Nov 04, 2020
Feminist Review / Writing
Aug 27, 2020
Bookseller / What Media Says
Aug 06, 2020
Journal of Postcolonial Writing / Papers
May 24, 2020
Wasafiri / What Media Says
Mar 30, 2020
Buah Zine / What Media Says
Jul 13, 2018
Personal Blog / What Media Says
Mar 22, 2018
Mongabay / What Media Says
Oct 30, 2017
Dave Poems / What Media Says
Aug 28, 2017
Asymptote / As Seen On
Aug 25, 2017
Margins / Writing
Aug 07, 2017
Sideways Times / What Media Says
Aug 06, 2017
Disability Visibility Project / What Media Says
Apr 19, 2017
Personal Blog / As Seen On
Aug 07, 2014
Jakarta Post / As Seen On
Apr 28, 2014
TEDxTalks / Youtube
Apr 09, 2014
Publishing Perspectives / As Seen On
Apr 01, 2014
Jakarta Post / As Seen On
Oct 31, 2013
Secret {W} Business / What Media Says
Jul 25, 2013
Jakarta Globe / What Media Says
Jul 13, 2012
Crafted by Khairani Barokka
Wasafiri / What Media Says
Jan 22, 2024
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