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Place of Birth: Jakarta, Indonesia
About Clara Ng
- Clara Ng (born 28 July 1973; née Clara Regina Juana, last name pronounced [??]) is an Indonesian writer who is known for both adult fiction and children's literature. During her childhood in Jakarta, Ng enjoyed reading and read at an advanced rate.
- After finishing her primary and secondary education in Indonesia, during which time she took up writing, Ng went to the United States to study at Ohio State University.
- After her graduation in 1997, she worked in the US for a year before returning to Indonesia to work at a shipping company.
- After three years working there, in which time she married and had two miscarriages, Ng quit to become a professional writer.
- Her first novel, Tujuh Musim Setahun (Seven Seasons in a Year; 2002), sold poorly, but her subsequent trilogy Indiana Chronicle was better received.
- Since then, she has released several novels, as well as numerous short stories (including one anthology) and twenty-one children's books, and some collections of fairytales. Ng, who is a stay at home mother, writes in her spare time at home.
- Her topics are different depending on the genre she is writing in; her adult-oriented works often deal with minority groups, while her children's books are meant to teach empathy.
- Her children's works have won three Adhikarya Awards from the Indonesian Publishers Association, and LGBT groups have praised her novel Gerhana Kembar (Twin Eclipse; 2007) for avoiding stereotyping the group.
- However, some educators have protested the lack of an explicit moral message in her children's books.
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