Lisa Jacobson is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Her verse novel, The Sunlit Zone (Five Islands Press), won the 2014 Adelaide Festival John Bray Poetry Award. This book was also shortlisted for four other national awards: the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, the Stella Prize, the Wesley Michel Wright Prize and, as a manuscript, for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. An earlier poetry collection, Hair & Skin & Teeth (Five Islands Press), was shortlisted for the National Book Council Awards. In 2011 she won the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in Australia, Canada, Indonesia, the U.S. and the U.K. She has studied literature at Melbourne and La Trobe Universities, and remains an Honorary Research Fellow at La Trobe. Her new poetry collection, South in the World (UWA Publishing) will be released later this year (2014). She lives in Melbourne with her partner and daughter.

http://www.lisajacobson.org

Born in Magelang, October 20, 1963. She has published over 20 titles, including schenk mir alles, was die Männer nicht besitzen. doch schenk mir nicht das Himmelreich / Beri Aku Semua Yang Dibutuhkan Lelaki, tapi Bukan Surga (Indonesian German bilingual, multimedia, CD ROOM, (Germany (2009). Her book Kill the Radio was republished in the UK (Arc Publications, London, 2007). She had received numerous awards as the best author from Jakarta Art Council (2000) and The Indonesian Language Center (2003). Also awards from the Ministry of Culture Art and Tourism of Republic Indonesia (2004) and The Khatulistiwa Literary Award (2006). In 2009 she received a fellowship from the Heinrich Boll Foundation, and stayed in Germany for 4 months. Also been residency to Australia several times in 2000 and 2002. She is now managing house books “Dunia Tera” in the village around Borobudur, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.

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Lahir di Magelang, 20 Oktober 1963, sudah menerbitkan 20 judul buku lebih, termasuk schenk mir alles, was die Männer nicht besitzen. doch schenk mir nicht das Himmelreich / Beri Aku Semua Yang Dibutuhkan Lelaki, tapi Bukan Surga (dwi bahasa Indonesia-Jerman, multi media, CD ROOM, Jerman (2009). Buku puisinya, Kill the Radio diterbitkan ulang di Inggris (Arc Publication, 2007). Ia pernah menerima sejumlah penghargaan sebagai pengarang terbaik, di antaranya dari Dewan Kesenian Kesenian Jakarta (2000) dan Pusat Bahasa (2003). Juga, penghargan seni dari Kementrian Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata RI (2004) dan peraih Khatulistiwa Literary Award (2006). Pada tahun 2009 ia menerima recidency fellowship dari Heinrich Boll Foundation, dan tinggal di Jerman selama 4 bulan. Pernah. Juga pernah residensi ke Australia (2000 dan 2002). Pekerjaannya sehari-hari selain menulis adalah mengelola Rumah Buku DUNIATERA, di Wanurejo, wilayah Borobudur, Magelang.