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Oka Rusmini

Writer


Born Jakarta (Jul 11, 1967), currently resides in Denpasar, Bali
Personal Web http://okarusmini.blogspot.com/
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Oka Rusmini (Ida Ayu Oka Rusmini), the poet and novelist, was born on 11 July 1967 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Presently, she lives in Denpasar, Bali. Her writing is characteristic of the condition of women in the patriarchal culture in traditional society.

Oka has to her credit collections of short stories, poems and novels. Oka’s poem has also been included along with twelve other Balinese contributors in a book entitled Bali Living in Two Worlds, edited by Urs Ramseyer from the Museum der Kulturen Basel in Switzerland.

She has also served as the fashion editor in the Bali Post, the largest local newspaper in Bali. She has been speaking at various national and international literary forums, such as “Ubud Writers and Readers Festival” in Bali; the “Pulpit Poet 21st Century” at Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta in 1996; ASEAN Writers Writing Program, 1997; “International Poetry Festival”, Surakarta, 2002 and that in Denpasar, Bali in 2003. She represented Indonesia at the “Winternachten Literature Festival” in The Hague and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 2003, she was invited as a guest author at the University of Hamburg, Germany.1


  1. Wikipedia 


Book(s)


“Anak ini Mau Mengencingi Jakarta?”
("This Kid Wants to Urinate all over Jakarta?”)
Anthology
222 page(s), Penerbit Buku Kompas
Saiban
Poetry Collection
page(s), Grasindo
Patiwangi
Poetry Collection
196 page(s), Bentang Pustaka


Work(s) in Translation




What Media Say


Southeast Asia’s best poets by Paul Millar — Southeast Asia Globe (Jun 29, 2016)
Interview: Gender facts in fiction by Ina Parlina — Nation Multimedia (Nov 19, 2012)


Also Mentioned in ...


Literature is the new cool by Sebastian Partogi - Jakarta Post (Dec 19, 2017)
Lontar’s Modern Library of Indonesian Literature by Ron Witton - Indonesia Institute Blog (Jul 18, 2015)
A many-headed machine by Hendrik Maier - Inside Indonesia (Jul 17, 2015)
Putting the Word Out by Nithin Coca - Southeast Asia Globe (Oct 30, 2014)



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