author of The Majesties and Oddfits series; translator (Indonesian to English); UC-Berkeley PhD; she/her; “riveting and disquieting”; repped by @jayapriya88
Mar 4, 2019 • 72 tweets • 10 min read
I repeat: in this case, to omit is to erase, and the erasure in question is of the hard-earned accomplishments of numerous Indonesian writers and their translators and publishers.
So when in subsequent essays published by IN OTHER WORDS, Harry Aveling and Lontar’s head and cofounder John McGlynn provide a very selective list of Indonesian works available in English while lamenting the unpopularity of Indonesian literature on the world literary scene…