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Okky Puspa Madasari known as Okky Madasari is an Indonesian author. She won an Indonesian major and most celebrated literary prize, Khatulistiwa Literary Award, in 2012 for her third novel, Maryam.〔(Tale of Ahmadi Refugees Wins Literary Award | The Jakarta Globe )〕 At the age of 28, she is the youngest ever to win this prestigious award. Her novels were shortlisted three years in a row by the same award. Her first novel Entrok, an epic about life under totalitarian and militarism during the Indonesia's New Order era, has been translated into English and was published in July 2013 under the title of The Years of the Voiceless.〔http://www.amazon.com/The-Years-Voiceless-Okky-Madasari/dp/979229676X〕〔http://gramediana.com/books/detail/40101130044-the-years-of-the-voiceless?locale=404〕〔http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/features/women-find-their-voice-in-a-powerful-java-tale/〕〔http://okkymadasari.net/entrok/a-small-step-of-a-longer-journey/#more-943〕 Her two other novels, Maryam and Pasung Jiwa, have also been translated into English under the title of The Outcast and Bound respectively. Okky was born on October 30, 1984 in Magetan, East Java, Indonesia. She graduated from Gadjah Mada University’s International Relations Department in 2005 with bachelor's degree in Political Science. She has chosen to become a journalist and writer ever since her graduation. In 2012, she took sociology for her master's degree from the University of Indonesia, and graduated in July 2014 with a thesis on Genealogy of Indonesian Novels: Capitalism, Islam and Critical Literature. ==Work== Okky’s novels consistently voice human rights and freedom, and are always against any form of repression. Okky is a realist, with all of her novels attempting to portray the face of Indonesia. While she tells mostly about Indonesia and its people, the issues she carries in her novels showcase basic and universal humankind's problems. Her novels have won nationwide praises, with Apsanti Djokosujatno, one of Indonesia's prominent literary critic from the University of Indonesia, claiming that they are already categorized as canon and will become classic. She goes further to dub her as the next Pramoedya Ananta Toer.〔(» Entrok : Sebuah Novel Multifaset - okky madasari )〕 Okky’s first novel, Entrok (2010), tells a story about how Indonesians live under the ruthless dictatorship of Suharto's regime and how they struggled to survive under oppression of the military's dominance.〔(Unveiling sexuality and social insanity | The Jakarta Post )〕 Her second novel 86 (2011) vividly describes the prevalent corruption within the country and especially among its civil servants〔(Novel documents one woman’s steep decline and rampant bribery | The Jakarta Post )〕 The novel was shortlisted as top five in the Khatulistiwa Literary Award in 2011. Her third novel Maryam (2012) which describes how Ahmadis are violently thrown away from their own home and homeland without any protection from the government won the 2012 Khatulistiwa Literary Award. The novel has been translated into English under the title of The Outcast, and it's available in bookstores since March 2014. Pasung Jiwa is her latest novel, released in May 2013. It addresses individual struggle to break free from his or her own individual limitation as well as the containment of norm, tradition, religion, state and economic dominance of the few rich. The novel was shortlisted by the Khatulistiwa Literary Award in 2013.〔http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/my-jakarta/i-try-to-write-on-subjects-with-universal-value-2/〕〔http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/features/changing-indonesia-one-fiction-at-a-time/〕 Pasung Jiwa has also been translated into English under the title of Bound in July 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Okky Madasari」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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