About Lara
Lara Norgaard is an essayist and translator of Indonesian, Portuguese, and Spanish into English. Her work has appeared in publications including Asymptote Journal, Public Books, The Jakarta Post, and Cuíer (Two Lines Press), and she is a PEN/Heim Translation Grant recipient for her translation of 24 Hours with Gaspar by Indonesian author Sabda Armandio (forthcoming from Seagull Books in spring 2023). Currently, she is a PhD student in comparative literature at Harvard University, where she researches post-dictatorship Latin American and Indonesian literatures and the history of solidarity movements across the Global South.
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