Durians and Deportation
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
A wealth of translating and teaching experience has helped one academic's students learn much about themselves, as well as the books they so frequently become immersed in.
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An Australian academic who has translated a veritable mountain of Malay and Indonesian texts, Harry Aveling has even dabbled in Hindi texts. As I talk to him, he points proudly to a brief letter written by a young girl to her mother, the poet Dorothea Rosa Herliany. This short and simple letter asks about her mother's well-being, and is full of wonder for the distanced, foreign world where her mother has traveled.
Dorothea's arrival in Melbo
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