Tiffany Tsao
Tiffany Tsao is a writer and literary translator. Her third novel, Under Your Wings, was longlisted for the 2019 Ned Kelly Award and released abroad as The Majesties. She translates Indonesian fiction and poetry into English, and her work was awarded a 2018 PEN Translates grant and shortlisted for the 2021 NSW Premier’s Translation Prize. She has a Ph.D. in English from UC-Berkeley.
All essays by Tiffany Tsao
In Suspicion of Beauty: On Eka Kurniawan
The English translations of Eka Kurniawan’s novels have been hailed for their beauty and situated within a global frame of reference – but when they were first published, critics were fascinated by Eka’s deviance and his willingness to flout contemporary Indonesian literary norms.
Rethinking Censorship in Indonesia
‘Perhaps the question that Ubud should prompt Indonesians and those who follow Indonesian affairs to ask is not “How can such censorship be happening?”, but rather, “Why are we shocked anew whenever censorship like this happens?” The answer to this new question may lie in the bifurcated narrative many of us rely on when thinking about recent Indonesian history.’ Tiffany Tsao on freedom of literary expression in Indonesia