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About the author

Norman Erikson Pasaribu is a Toba Batak poet and translator. Their first poetry collection 'Sergius Mencari Bacchus' won the first prize on the 2015 Jakarta Arts Council Poetry Manuscript Competition. Its English translation by Tiffany Tsao won a PEN Translates award and was published in the UK with Tilted Axis Press. Their collection of short stories 'Happy Stories, Mostly' (tr. Tiffany Tsao) won the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses and was listed for the 2022 International Booker Prize, the 2023 National Translation Award for Prose, the 2023 Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation. Among their accolades are the inaugural Patricia Kailis International Writing Fellowship and Southeast Asia Literary Council’s Sastrawan Muda. They are Harvard University Asia Center’s 2023-2024 Artist in Residence.

Summary

The first English-language work from the author of award-winning Sergius Mencari Bacchus and Happy Stories, Mostly. A poetry collection exploring labour, class, and queerness.

Product details

• Authors: Norman Erikson Pasaribu
• Publisher: Turnaround
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2024
• EAN: 9781917126007
• ISBN: 978-1-917126-00-7
• No. of pages: 102
• Weight: 151 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, English, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry / poems by individual poets