Bio

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English

Maggie Tiojakin is an Indonesian journalist, copywriter and short story writer. Her work has been published by The Jakarta Post Weekender, Asian News Network (ANN), The Boston Globe, Brunei Times, Writers’ Journal, Voices, La Petite Zine, Femina, Kompas, Eastown Fiction, Somerville News, etc. She is also the author of a short story collection, Homecoming (and other stories), published by Mathe Publications in 2006. She has adapted and translated the following: Claudia/Jasmine (adapted from a film by Awi Suryadi), published in 2008 by Gagas Media; Surat Cinta Hari Rabu (translated from Jason F. Wright’s Wednesday’s Letters); Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen (Gagas Media); Tales of Terror by Edgar Allan Poe (GPU); and Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (GPU). She is also the co-writer of the feature film “Simfoni Luar Biasa” (SLB) or “A Special Symphony” with Director/Writer Awi Suryadi (released in theatres September 29 2011) –produced by Nation Pictures and Prime Time Production, starring some of Indonesia’s finest: Ira Wibowo, Ira Maya Sopha, and Gista Putri. Christian Bautista, the Filipino singer, plays the leading character. 

Maggie’s second collection was recently published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama, titled Balada Ching-Ching (Ching-Ching’s Ballads). Her latest work, a novel, Winter Dreams, will be out in Sept-Oct 2011, published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama. In her spare time, she manages a personal blog called Fiksi Lotus (Lotus Fiction) — click here! — that offers free world classic short stories by both known and unknown authors which have been trans lated into Bahasa Indonesia.