Angelique Kasmara
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Angelique Kasmara is a fiction writer born in Bandung, Indonesia. [1] Her family moved to New Zealand when she was a baby, and she grew up in West Auckland, attending Freyberg Memorial Primary School and St Dominic's College [2]. She spent two years in the 1990s working in media publishing in Jakarta, returning to New Zealand because of political unrest in Indonesia.
In 2016 she was awarded the Sir James Wallace Prize at the University of Auckland for best portfolio on the Master of Creative Writing programme. [3] This prize was for the first draft of her novel Isobar Precinct, published by Cuba Press in 2021. [4] Isobar Precinct has been described as a "sparkling, stylish novel" [5] and "epic, bold and cinematic" [6]. Brian Boyd describes Kasmara as a writer with "real narrative bite, her imagery is first rate, often surprising and at times quite revelatory (and diverse in angle of attack), and the characters connect in ways that count". [7]
Kasmara has published fiction on the Newsroom site [8] and excerpts from Isobar Precinct appeared in the anthologies Ko Aotearoa Tātou (Otago University Press 2020) [9] and A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland University Press 2021). [10] She is the editor of the University of Auckland's online literary journal, The Three Lamps. [11]