Dr Gabriel Possenti Sindhunata Author

Dr. Gabriel Possenti Sindhunata SJ is a leading Indonesian journalist and novelist as well as a practising Jesuit priest. His great masterpiece, Anak Bajang Herds the Wind (1983) is a contemporary classic of Indonesian literature selling over 70,000 copies and receiving numerous awards and accolades. Sindhunata is also known for his feature articles on social issues and a regular column about soccer published in the Kompas daily newspaper. He is the editor and general manager of Basis, a magazine focusing on cultural and social issues, and has published over a dozen novels, two poetry collections, four philosophy books and a collection of his newspaper columns on soccer. Translator Joan Suyenaga was born and raised in Honolulu and earned an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Hawaii. She began studying traditional Javanese gamelan music and language in the early 1970s, and has lived and raised a family in Yogyakarta, Central Java, for the past 30 years while working as a freelance writer, translator and editor focusing on Indonesian and Javanese culture.