Budi Darma

Budi Darma (1937–2021) was a novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. Budi Darma received several national literary awards and his international honours include the Southeast Asian Writers Award (or S.E.A. Write Award) and the Mastera Literary Award. He held a PhD in English literature from the University of Bloomington, Indiana, and was a professor at the State University of Surabaya.