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Jun 28, 2022 · Since the publication of his first novel Beauty Is a Wound in 2002, Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan has made himself a name internationally. Drawing on the myths and beliefs of his country while combining earthliness and poetry, magic and realism, his short stories have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Eka Kurniawan (born November 28, 1975) is an Indonesian writer and screenwriter. In 2016, Kurniawan became the first Indonesian writer to be nominated for the Man Booker International Prize. [2] Early life. Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, West Java, and grew up in a small coastal town, Pangandaran.
Nov 28, 1975 · Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya in 1975 and completed his studies in the Faculty of Philosophy at Gadjah Mada University. He has been described as ...
Oct 2, 2015 · Eka Kurniawan’s “Beauty Is a Wound” and “Man Tiger,” which have just been translated into English, tell of generations in Indonesia bound by unspeakable tragedies.
Nov 4, 2015 · Eka Kurniawan has been described as “the brightest meteorite in Indonesia’s new literary firmament”; the Jakarta Post calls him as “one of the few influential writers” in the...
Sep 27, 2016 · Brash, worldly and wickedly funny, Eka Kurniawan may be South-East Asia’s most ambitious writer in a generation... A murder mystery of sorts, though the first sentence reveals both murderer and victim. Even the motive is no mystery.
Dec 12, 2002 · The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead.
Eka Kurniawan (lahir 28 November 1975) [1] adalah seorang penulis asal Indonesia. Ia menamatkan pendidikan tinggi dari Fakultas Filsafat Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta. [note 1] Eka Kurniawan terpilih sebagai salah satu "Global Thinkers of 2015" dari jurnal Foreign Policy. [3]
Sep 9, 2015 · By the time the newlyweds return from their honeymoon, Eka Kurniawan’s fictional Javanese city of Halimunda is “filled with corpses sprawled out in the irrigation channels and on the outskirts ...
Eka Kurniawan is the author of two novels. He has published two collections of short stories and a critical appreciation of Pramoedya Ananta Toer. He has also written movie scripts and a graphic novel. He studied philosophy at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, and lives in Jakarta.
