Ayu Utami

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Ayu Utami at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015

Ayu Utami (born November 21, 1968 , Bogor , West Java , Indonesia ) is an Indonesian radio and newspaper journalist, screenwriter and author .

Life

Utami grew up in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia . At the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, she studied Russian and literature and achieved a bachelor's degree . Already in college she wrote articles for various newspapers. She did not pursue a career as a model that was proposed to her because she detested cosmetics and make-up. She devoted herself entirely to journalism and joined the Alliance of Independent Journalists (Allansi Jurnalis Independen). In 1994, the alliance was banned under the New Order by Indonesia's second president Suharto, along with a number of newspapers and magazines. Some colleagues were arrested by the regime. Utami himself was banned from working. She continued to work as a journalist in the underground and was anonymous author of a black book on corruption under the Suharto family system.

Utami's first novel Saman was published in her homeland a few weeks before the fall of Suharto in 1998 and was honored by Kunstrat Jakartas that same year. In 2000 the work received the Dutch Prince Claus Prize . In 2001 Utami's second novel Larung followed, and in 2008 the novel Pengadilan Susila .

In 2004 Utami took part in the Berlin International Literature Festival and could be heard in the Berlin Literature Salon on Kollwitzplatz . In 2014 she was a radio journalist for the only independent radio station Kantor Berita Radio 68H (Radio 68H) to be heard in all of Indonesia , also a journalist and co-editor of the cultural magazine Kalam and she wrote for the Utan Kayu Theater in the Utan Kayu Art Center in Jakarta.

Utami is a Catholic. She lives in Jakarta.

Awards

  • 1998: First prize in the Jakarta City Art Council's novel competition for Saman .
  • 2000: Prince Claus Prize for the same novel.

Publications

  • Saman . KPG, Jakarta 1998.
  • Larung . KPG, Jakarta 2001.
    • Dutch by Maya Suledja-Liem / Monique Soesman: Larung . De Gaus, Breda 2001.
    • German: Larung , Roman. Horleman, Angermünde 2015, ISBN 978-3-89502-393-4 .
  • Si parasit Lajang , Collection of Essais. GagasMedia, Jakarta 2003.
  • Bilangan Fu . KPG, Jakarta 2008.
  • together with Agua Noor: Pengadilan Susila (Susila's trial), 2008.
  • Screenplay for the film Ruma Maida (Midas House), 2009.
  • Manjali Dan Cakrabirawa . KPG, Jakarta 2010, ISBN 978-979-91-0260-7 .
  • Cerita Cinta Enrico . KPG, Jakarta 2012.
  • Soegija: 100% Indonesia , KPG, Jakarta 2012.
  • Lalita . KPG, Jakarta 2012.
  • Si Parasite Lajang:, Roman, KPG, Jakarta 2013.
  • Pengakuan: Eks Parasite Lajang. KPG, Jakarta 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Are you allowed to write about anything? Interview in FAZ on January 27, 2015, page 12
personal data
SURNAME Utami, Ayu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indonesian radio and newspaper journalist, screenwriter and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogor , West Java , Indonesia