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Sunlie Thomas Alexander
All paintings by K.H. M. Fuad Riyadi
John H. McGlynn, a graduate of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (1981), lives in Jakarta where, in 1987, he established the Lontar Foundation, the only organization in the world devoted to the publication of Indonesian literature in translation. As the translator of several dozen full-length literary works, he has garnered much international praise.
Through the Lontar Foundation, of which he is now Chairman of the Board of Trustees, he has edited, overseen the translation of, and introduced to the world, works by more than 250 Indonesian authors. Also through the Lontar Foundation, he initiated the "On the Record" film documentation program which has thus far produced twenty-four films on Indonesian writers and more than thirty films on Indonesian performance traditions. As a film subtitler, he has subtitled more than 100 Indonesian films.
John is the Indonesian country editor for Manoa , a literary journal published by the University of Hawaii and for Words Without Borders , a virtual literary journal. He is a member of the International Commission of the Indonesian Publishers Association (IKAPI), PEN International-New York, and the Association of Asian Studies. He is also a trustee of AMINEF, the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation, which oversees the Fulbright and Humphrey scholarship programs in Indonesia.
Cecep Syamsul Hari is a poet, translator, creative writing instructor, and editor. His works have been translated into English, Czech, German, Bengali and Korean. He has published seven collections of poetry, one book of short stories, a novel and several books in translation. His book of poetry, Perahu Berlayar Sampai Bintang (Kiblat, 2009), was selected as a finalist of the Indonesian Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2008-2009. His newest book of translations is titled Perajin Kaca 100 Puisi Hongaria (Kiblat, 2009). Cecep has been invited to be writer in residence at the Korea Literature Translation Institute in Seoul (2006), the Rimbun Dahan Arts Residency in Selangor, Malaysia (2007), the Magyar Forditohaz (Hungarian Translators House) in Balatonfüred, Hungary (2009), and the Bundanon Arts Residency in Nowra, New South Wales, Australia (2009). Cecep is the founder of Sastra Digital (a website about Indonesian literature, www.sastradigital.org ) and he is also an editor of Horison literary magazine.
Laura Noszlopy is an anthropologist, writer, translator and editor. With a first degree in Comparative Religion from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and a Masters degree and PhD in Socio-cultural Anthropology from University of East Anglia, she has taught in several UK universities. She has also lived and worked for almost a decade in Indonesia, where she worked for the Lontar Foundation, Latitudes magazine and Equinox Publishing, among others. Her original work has been published internationally in books, journals, magazines and online. Her most recent publication, with Professor Matthew I. Cohen, is Contemporary Southeast Asian performance: transnational perspectives (Cambridge Scholarly Press, 2010). She is also working on a biography project in her role as a Research Associate in the Theatre and Drama department of Royal Holloway, University of London.
In addition to her work with the Lontar Foundation, Laura currently works as an editor for the journals Indonesia and the Malay World and Inside Indonesia . She also owns and runs the specialist editorial services company www.katakata.co.uk .
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John H. McGlynn, Senior Editor
Cecep Syamsul Hari, Managing Editor (Indonesian)
Laura Noszlopy, Managing Editor (English)
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