John H. McGlynn has translated several dozen
publications under his own name, and through the Lontar Foundation,
which he co-founded in 1987, has ushered into print close to two
hundred books on Indonesian language, literature, and culture. He
is the Indonesian country editor for MĀNOA, a literary journal
published by the University of Hawai'i Press; the senior editor for
I-Lit, an on-line journal focusing on Indonesian literature in
translation; a contributing editor to Words Without Borders and
Warscapes, U.S. based literary journals; and an editor advisor for
Jurnal Sastra, an Indonesian-language on-line journal. He is also a
frequent speaker at seminars both in Indonesia and abroad.
Putu Wijaya is an extraordinary prolific author,
he has written about thirty novels, forty dramas, numerous movie
and television scripts, and many short stories and essays. He is
also known for Teater Mandiri, widely regarded as Indonesia’s
foremost theater collective. Putu’s works has won numerous awards;
he has also received recognition from the international community,
including a fellowship to study kabuki in Japan, a residency at the
University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, and a Fulbright
Scholarship to teach Indonesian theater in US universities. His
writings have been translated into Japanese, Arabic, Thai, and a
number of Western languages.
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