Okky Madasari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Okky Madasari

Indonesian writer

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1984

Place of Birth: Magetan, Indonesia

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: Indonesia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Okky Madasari

  • Okky Puspa Madasari known as Okky Madasari is an Indonesian novelist, essayist and academic.
  • She won an Indonesian major literary prize, the Khatulistiwa Literary Award, in 2012 for her third novel, Maryam.
  • At the age of 28, she is the youngest ever to win this prestigious award.
  • Her novels were shortlisted three years in a row by the award's judges. Okky is known for her exquisite portrayals of the social and political conditions in Indonesia, focusing her writing on resistance against injustice and the struggle for freedom and humanity in her five novels, one short story collection, and a series of children's novels.Her novels have been translated into English, German and Arabic. Her first novel Entrok, an epic about life under totalitarian and militarism during the Indonesia's New Order era, has been translated into English and was published in July 2013 under the title of The Years of the Voiceless.
  • Her three subsequent novels, 86, Maryam and Pasung Jiwa, have also been translated into English under the title of 86, The Outcast and Bound respectively.
  • Pasung Jiwa also has been translated in German under the title Gebunden in 2015.
  • The novel has also been available in Arabic as it has been published in Egypt since 2019.Since 2018, Okky has begun writing children novels, and subsequently publishing three children novels of Mata Series, titled Mata di Tanah Melus (2018), Mata dan Rahasia Pulau Gapi (2018) and Mata dan Manusia Laut (2019).
  • The final of the series called Mata di Dunia Purba is currently being written. Okky was born on October 30, 1984 in Magetan, East Java, Indonesia.
  • She graduated from Gadjah Mada University’s International Relations Department in 2005 with bachelor's degree in Political Science.
  • She has chosen to become a journalist and writer ever since her graduation.
  • In 2012, she pursued a master's degree in sociology with the University of Indonesia, and graduated in July 2014 with a thesis titled Genealogy of Indonesian Novels: Capitalism, Islam and Critical Literature.
  • Under a full scholarship from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Okky is now working on her PhD thesis on cultural censorship in Indonesia's post totalitarian era with the university.

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