Leila S. Chudori

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Leila Chudori (2014)

Leila Salikha Chudori (born December 12, 1962 in Jakarta ) is an Indonesian author.

Life

Leila Salikha Chudori's father, Muhammad Chudori (1926–2013), co-founded the Jakarta Post in 1983 . She studied in Canada at Trent University and graduated in 1988. She worked as a journalist for the Indonesian magazines Jakarta Jakarta and Tempo . In 1991 she received the Indonesian Press Association award for her work at the news magazine TEMPO.

Her first stories appeared in children's magazines. Chudori has published several volumes of short stories, some of which have also been translated into English, French and German. Her novel Pulang , for which she received the 2011 Kusala Sastra Khatulistiwa literary prize, was translated into German for the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair . It was published by Weidle Verlag .

Chudori writes scripts for the television series Dunia Tanpa Koma and received an award at the 2007 Bandung Film Festival .

Works (selection)

  • Malam Terakhir . 1989.
    • The last night . Translated from the Indonesian by Beate Carle. Horlemann, Bad Honnef 1993.
  • 9 Dari Nadira . 2009.
  • Pulang . Novel. 2012.
    • Pulang (homecoming to Jakarta) . From the Indonesian by Sabine Müller. Weidle Verlag, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-938803-75-2 .

Web links

Commons : Leila Chudori  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Andreas Fanizadeh: One poem - two winners. In: TAZ . June 20, 2015, p. 12.