Tiya Hapitiawati

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is a literary translator from German to Indonesian. She graduated from Universitas Indonesia with a Bachelor’s degree in German Studies and a Master’s degree in Linguistics in 2016. She has translated several classic and contemporary literary works, including Kleiner Mann, was nun? by Hans Fallada, Ungeduld des Herzens by Stefan Zweig, Der letzte Sommer by Ricarda Huch, and Die schwarze Spinne by Jeremias Gotthelf. Her latest project, Niederungen by Herta Müller, will be published this fall. In addition to translating classic and contemporary works by German authors, she is also active in acquiring translation rights for Moooi Pustaka Verlag, a publishing house based in Jakarta and Yogyakarta.