Laksmi Pamuntjak

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Laksmi Pamuntjak, 2015

Laksmi Pamuntjak (born December 24, 1971 in Jakarta ) is an Indonesian writer .

Life

Laksmi Pamuntjak grew up in a middle-class Indonesian family, her father was an architect and her mother had studied pharmacy , both had studied in Europe. Pamuntjak received a piano training and represented Indonesia in international piano competitions. At the age of eleven she received her first literary prize. She studied in Australia.

Today she works in the bilingual bookstore "Aksara" in Jakarta , which she co-founded, and in the editorial team of the weekly newspaper "Tempo".

Her novel Amba deals with the pogroms against the left and the Chinese under President Suharto in 1965. The novel met with great interest and was reprinted and translated several times, in 2015 also into German.

Awards

Works

  • The Jakarta Good Food Guide 2001 . Jakarta: Pena Klasik, 2000 (English)
  • Ellipsis: Poems and Prose . Jakarta: Pena Klasik, 2005 (English)
  • The Jakarta Good Food Guide 2008-2009 . Jakarta: Pena Klasik, 2008 (English)
  • Amba: sebuah novel . Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2012.
    • The question of red: a novel . Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2013. (English translation)
    • All colors red . Translated from the Indonesian by Martina Heinschke. Ullstein, 2015
  • Aruna & lidahnya: sebuah novel tentang makanan, perjalanan dan konspirasi . Jakarta: PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2014.

literature

  • Katharina Borchardt: "I've always been interested in mythology" . Interview, in: taz , September 19, 2015, p. 12

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Kramatschek: Lakshmi Pamuntiaks novel "All colors of red". Summon the shadows of the dead. Red is love, red is blood, red is also the color of communism. The Indonesian author Laksmi Pamuntiak brings these topics together in her novel in an astonishingly nuanced and sophisticated way , NZZ , 23 September 2015, international edition, p. 23.

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personal data
SURNAME Pamuntjak, Laksmi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indonesian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Jakarta