Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022 Happy Stories, Mostly is a playful, charged and tender collection of twelve stories—a blend of speculative fiction and dark absurdism, often drawing on Norman Erikson Pasaribu's Batak and Christian cultures. Pasaribu's stories ask what it means to be almost happy—almost to find joy, almost to...

my life is the afterlife From the author of Happy Stories, Mostly and Sergius Seeks Bacchus. Their first work originally written in English. My Dream Job is a tender playground of intellect and wit where entire worlds collide: the English and Toba Batak languages; Christian and Batak mythology; colonial violence past and present. In a voice playful, daring and not...

To say it is hard to be queer in Indonesia is a gross understatement. LGBTQI Indonesians encounter violence on a regular basis from those around them, and increasingly, from the state itself. Yet this was the stage on which Norman Erikson Pasaribu's poetry collection Sergius Seeks Bacchus made its debut, breaking new ground to become, in the words of another...