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Khairani Barokka

Khairani Barokka is a translator, editor, writer and artist from Jakarta, with over two decades of professional translation experience. In 2023, Okka was shortlisted for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards.

Okka’s work has been presented widely internationally, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis, and access as translation. Her latest books are Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the 2022 Barbellion Prize, and amuk, forthcoming in March 2024 (Nine Arches). Okka’s creative nonfiction debut, Annah, Infinite, is forthcoming with Tilted Axis Press in 2024.

Articles by Khairani Barokka


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