Eka Kurniawan

Eka Kurniawan

Eka Kurniawan was born in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia; November 28, 1975. He studied philosophy at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. He works as journalist, writer and designer. He writes novels, short stories, movie scripts and graphic novel, as well as essay. His works including [http://www.id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantik_itu_Luka Cantik itu Luka] (The Beauty is Scar, 2002), Lelaki Harimau (Tigerman, 2004), Gelak Sedih dan Cerita-cerita Lainnya (Laughable Sadness and Other Stories, 2005), and Cinta tak ada Mati dan Cerita-cerita Lainnya (Love ain't Mortal and Other Stories, 2005).

[http://www.id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantik_itu_Luka Cantik itu Luka] has translated into Japanese as "Bi wa Kizu" (Shinpu-sha, 2006).

Blurb

Benedict Anderson in "New Left Review", March-April 2008:

"It is nice that, after half a century, Pramoedya Ananta Toer has found a successor. The young Sundanese Eka Kurniawan has published two astonishing novels in the past half-decade. If one considers their often nightmarish plots and characters, one could say there is no hope. But the sheer beauty and elegance of their language, and the exuberance of their imagining, give one the exhilaration of watching the first snowdrops poke their little heads up towards a wintry sky."

"Eka, a great admirer of Pramoedya, wrote a first-class academic thesis, since published, on the older writer’s complex relationship with ’socialist realism’. The two novels are Cantik Itu Luka [’Beautiful’, a Wound] (2002) and Lelaki Harimau [Man Tiger] (2004). The first is a huge, rather unwieldy, surreal recapitulation of the past century of Indonesian history set in a sort of isolated Macondo somewhere on the south coast of Java. The second is a brilliant, tight-knit and frightening village tragedy, also set somewhere on that barren littoral."

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* [http://www.ekakurniawan.com "Eka Kurniawan Project"]
* [http://www.gramedia.com/author_detail.asp?id=EFIK5041 "Gramedia Pustaka Utama"]
* [http://www.id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka_Kurniawan "Eka Kurniawan"]
* [http://www.nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka_Kurniawan "Eka Kurniawan"]


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