Eka Kurniawan

Place: Tasikmalaya

Born: 1975

Biography:

Eka Kurniawan is an Indonesian writer born in Tasikmalaya in 1975. He studied philosophy at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, and is the author of novels, short stories, essays, movie scripts, and graphic novels. He was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016, and his work has been translated into thirty-five languages. His epic novel of magical realism, Beauty is a Wound, has been widely praised internationally. The New York Review of Books considers Kurniawan 'a literary child of Günter Grass, Gabriel García Márquez, and Salman Rushdie,' and Le Monde has suggested that in the future, Nobel jurors may award him the prize 'that Indonesia has never received.'