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Afrizal Malna
Document Shredding Museum

Translated from Indonesian by
DANIEL OWEN

BIOS

AFRIZAL MALNA (b.1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia) is a poet, artist, and writer of short stories, novels, literary essays, and playscripts. His work has won a number of national and international literary honors, including the SEA Write Award and the Khatulistiwa Literary Award. His most recent books are the essay collection Performance Art dan Medan Pasca-Seni (Performance Art and the Post-Art Field) and the poetry collection Tiket Masuk Bioskop Autobiografi (Autobiography Cinema Ticket). He was a 2015 DAAD Artist-in-Residence (Berlin) and has performed at poetry festivals in Bali, Bremen, Maastricht, Hamburg, Kerala, and Yokohama. His work has been translated into Dutch, English, German, Japanese, and Portuguese. His books available in English translation are Document Shredding Museum, Morning Slanting to the Right, and Anxiety Myths.

DANIEL OWEN is a poet, translator, and editor. His translations from the Indonesian of Afrizal Malna’s Document Shredding Museum were chosen as the winner of Asymptote Journal's 2019 Close Approximations contest. He is the author of the poetry books Toot Sweet (United Artists), R

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Abstract

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1 Introduction

Sometime seep in 2010, nurture a throng of learner writers advocate Surakarta, Principal Java, Afrizal Malna (b. 1957), undeniable of Indonesia’s major poets, said: ‘[A]ll my poems are [about] Jakarta.’¹ Bewitched on closefitting own, picture disclosure capital little, mix many perturb Indonesian writers—such as Chairil Anwar (1922–1949), W.S. Rendra (1935–2009), Ajip Rosidi (1938–2020), fairy story Yudhistira Massardi (b. 1954)—have

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Afrizal Malna

Afrizal Malna
Lahir	7 Juni 1957 (umur 67) Jakarta
Pekerjaan	Sastrawan, penulis, esais, penyair, aktor
Kebangsaan	Indonesia

Afrizal Malna (lahir 7 Juni 1957) adalah sastrawan berkebangsaan Indonesia. Namanya dikenal secara luas melalui karya-karyanya berupa puisi, cerita pendek, novel, esaisastra yang dipublikasikan di berbagai media massa. Afrizal juga menulis teks pertunjukan teater yang dipentaskan di berbagai panggung pertunjukan di Indonesia dan mancanegara.^[1] Kekhasan karya Afrizal Malna adalah lebih mengangkat tema dunia modern dan kehidupan urban, serta objek material dari lingkungan tersebut.^[2] Korespondensi antarobjek itulah yang menciptakan gaya puitiknya.^[2][3][4]

Kehidupan pribadi

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Afrizal Malna menyelesaikan pendidikan SMA pada tahun 1976, namun baru pada 1981 ia melanjutkan kuliah di Sekolah Tinggi Filsafat Driyarkara, Jakarta, sebagai mahasiswa khusus, hingga pertengahan dikeluarkan pada tahun 1983.^[5] Selama kurang lebih sepuluh tahun ia bekerja di perusahaan kontraktor bangunan, ekspedisi muatan kapal laut, dan asuransi jiwa. Sekarang lebih banyak berkiprah di bidang seni sebagai penulis esaisastra, kurator seni rupa, dan