Nyonya The Tiang Ek

Nyonya The Tiang Ek, whose real name was Lie Djien Nio, was a Chinese Indonesian journalist, writer, and translator who was active in the late colonial period in the Dutch East Indies.

[1][4][5] Lie Djien Nio was born in Cianjur, West Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) at around the turn of the twentieth century.

[1] Her father, Lie Swi Gwan, was a translator of Chinese novels into Malay.

[1] She regularly published short stories and articles dealing with women's situations and problems in this and other publications including Sin Bin, Panorama, and Liberty, occasionally using the Pen name Mrs. Leader, or Njonja The Tiang Ek which was her husband's name with Nyonya (Mrs.) added.

[5][7] Her original 1925 novel Terboeroe napsoe ("To be haunted by one's passions") described two Chinese sisters who had received Dutch educations in the Indies and become writers and whose lives had taken different paths.