Laksmi Pamuntjak

Laksmi Pamuntjak is one of Indonesia’s most versatile bilingual authors. She is a bilingual journalist and an award-winning food writer as well as a poet, translator, and novelist. The Question of Red, her bestselling first novel, was short-listed for the Khatulistiwa Literary Award, appeared on the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s Top 8 list of the best books of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015, and was named #1 on Germany’s Weltempfaenger (Receivers of the World) list of the best works of fiction translated into German. It also won the German LiBeraturpreis for 2016. Pamuntjak was selected as the Indonesian representative for Poetry Parnassus at the 2012 London Olympics. She works as an art and food consultant, writes opinion articles on culture and politics for the Guardian, and divides her time between Berlin and Jakarta. Visit her online: Facebook: Laksmi Pamuntjak Twitter: @laksmiwrites Instagram: #LaksmiWrites