Khairani Barokka

Khairani Barokka (she/her/dia) is a writer from Jakarta, based in London. In 2023, Okka was shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards.

Her books include Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the 2022 Barbellion Prize, and 2024’s amuk (Nine Arches), longlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize. Annah, Infinite (Tilted Axis) is her creative nonfiction debut.

Articles by Khairani Barokka

Wasafiri Wonders: Khairani Barokka

Poet, editor, translator, and art scholar Khairani Barokka speaks to us about translating life, texts that inspire her, and more.

Accountability, Liminality, and (Mis)Representations in Translation: Khairani Barokka Interviews Tiffany Tsao

Khairani Barokka, author and former editor of Modern Poetry in Translation, corresponded with Tiffany Tsao, fiction writer and translator of Indonesian literature, for Wasafiri 116: Shorelines: South East Asia and the Littoral.

On (Mis)Translation and the Vein of Resistance by Khairani Barokka

Using the term 'amuk' as her starting point, Khairani Barokka roots out the violences in colonial mistranslation, weaving in disability justice and personal experience in this extract from Wasafiri 123.

'The Mouth of a Gash, Sing It Like a Scream': Alton Melvar M Dapanas interviews Khairani Barokka

Khairani Barokka speaks to Alton Melvar M Dapanas on how her latest book Annah, Infinite reshapes speculative nonfiction, disrupts genre norms, and disputes the racial, gendered, and ableist biases of fraught literary and artistic spaces.

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