Born in the US and raised between Indonesia and Singapore, Tiffany Tsao is a former academic turned award-winning literary translator, who translates from the Indonesian. She received the 2023 PEN Translation Prize for her translation of Budi Darma's People from Bloomington, and her translation of Norman Erikson Pasaribu's Happy Stories, Mostly was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her family.
This biography was last updated on 05/05/2026.
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