Lily Yulianti Farid is a media, communication and gender & development specialist, researcher, trainer and translator with more than 15 years of experience in Indonesia, Japan and Australia.
Lily has worked as a communication specialist, writer, radio journalist, producer, presenter, translator and interpreter. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Melbourne through an Australian Leadership Award scholarship. She is the founder/director of Makassar International Writers Festival in Indonesia and the co-founder of Indonesia’s first citizen journalism website. Lily has led media and communications training and capacity-building workshops for Members of Parliament, government officials, Indonesian journalists, and community organisations, and has extensive experience designing media campaigns and engagement strategies for Indonesian women’s organisations.
Lily is a professional translator and interpreter (Indonesian/English). In 2013 she translated Body Shop founder Anita Roddick’s book Business as Unusual from English to Indonesian. Lily also produced monologues/plays for women and the Singing Your Poetry Program for youth in Indonesia.
Since 2011, Lily has been the founder and director of Makassar International Writers Festival, co-founder and executive director of Rumata’ Artspace Indonesia, executive producer of Makassar South East Asian Film Academy, and the producer for INDONATION (2011) Charity Concert in Melbourne in association with Indonesian Students Association, Deakin University.
Lily participated in Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (2008-2013), Singapore Writers Festival (2009), Word Storm Writers Festival Darwin (2010), Byron Bay Writers Festival Australia (2012), Melbourne Writers Festival (2013 and 2017), British Council Edinbrugh Festival (2016), Frankfurt Book Fair (2015), Europhalia Arts Festival (2017), George Town Literary Festival (2014), Indonesian International Book Fair Festival (2017), Winternachten Festival (2009) and Pasar Malam Paris (2008).
Lily will be at Rimbun Dahan for one month under our Southeast Asian Arts Residency program. She is working to document and examine narratives and creative works in Malaysia and to interview Malaysian writers, publishers and literary communities during her residency.
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Makkunrai, 2008
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Maiasaura, 2008
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Family Room, 2010
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Ayahmu Bulan, Engkau Matahari, 2012