Dewi Anggraeni

Dewi Anggraeni gained a Master of Arts degree in Letters from the University of Indonesia and a Diploma of Education from La Trobe University in Melbourne where she settled. In Australia, she has worked as a technical editor, a teacher of English as a Second Languagee and also as the Australian correspondent for Tempo, a major news and current affairs magazine in Indonesia; as correspondent for the daily English language newspaper, The Jakarta Post; and for FORUM Keadilan.

Dewi has been a member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW). In 1990, she received a Project Assistance Grant from the Victorian Ministry for the Arts. Her work is finely tuned to the different cultural sensitivities of Indonesia and Australia, and to the need, both in fiction and journalism, to find culturally correct ways of approaching her topics, especially in sensitive areas such as politics and sexual behaviour. Her book, Who Did This to Our Bali?, is a response, both personal and cultural, to the Bali bombings of 12 October 2002.

Who Did This to Our Bali? Indra, 2004.
Snake. Indra, 2002.
Neighbourhood Tales: A Bilingual Collection of Short Stories. Indra, 2001.
Journeys through Shadows. Indra, 1998.
Stories of Indian Pacific. Indra, 1992.
Parallel Forces. Indra, 1988.
The Root of All Evil. Indra, 1987.