The internationally acclaimed author of Beauty Is a Wound, Eka Kurniawan was born in West Java in 1975, the day that the little ex-Portuguese colony East Timor declared its sovereign independence. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages and he has been acclaimed the โliterary child of Gรผnter Grass, Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquez, and Salman Rushdieโ (The New York Review of Books). Le Monde has suggested that in the future, Nobel jurors may award him the prize โthat Indonesia has never received.โ
Annie Tuckerโs translation of Beauty is a Wound was a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, longlisted for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award, a 2016 Man Booker International Prize finalist, and the winner of the 2016 World Readerโs Award.