Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Norman Erikson Pasaribu is a Toba Batak poet writing in Indonesian. Their poetry collection Sergius Mencari Bacchus won the first prize in the Jakarta Arts Council’s Poetry Manuscript Competition. Its English translation by Tiffany Tsao won a PEN Translates Award and was a finalist for the NSW Premier Translation Prize in 2021. Their collection of short stories, Happy Stories, Mostly (tr. Tiffany Tsao), won the UK’s Republic of Consciousness Prize and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022.