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my life is the afterlife From the author of Happy Stories, Mostly and Sergius Seeks Bacchus. Their first work originally written in English. My Dream Job is a tender playground of intellect and wit where entire worlds collide: the English and Toba Batak languages; Christian and Batak mythology; colonial violence past and present. In a voice playful, daring and not pursuing legibility above all else, Pasaribu writes the ultimate eulogy for a postcolonial dream. ‘Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s collection inverts then rotates the condition of memory to emanate carefree, surreal logics.’ —Bhanu Kapil ‘This is a book which simmers with a defiant rage, all the while offering the reader palpable moments of tenderness, or something akin to hope.’ —Mary Jean Chan, author of Flèche

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Norman Erikson Pasaribu is a Toba Batak poet and translator. Their first poetry collection 'Sergius Mencari Bacchus' won the first prize on the 2015 Jakarta Arts Council Poetry Manuscript Competition. Its English translation by Tiffany Tsao won a PEN Translates award and was published in the UK with Tilted Axis Press. Their collection of short stories 'Happy Stories, Mostly' (tr. Tiffany Tsao) won the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses and was listed for the 2022 International Booker Prize, the 2023 National Translation Award for Prose, the 2023 Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation. Among their accolades are the inaugural Patricia Kailis International Writing Fellowship and Southeast Asia Literary Council’s Sastrawan Muda. They are Harvard University Asia Center’s 2023-2024 Artist in Residence.

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