I Gusti Ngurah Putu Wijaya (born April 11, 1944) [1] is an Indonesian author, considered by many to be one of Indonesia's most prominent literary figures.
[2] In 1969, his play Lautan Bernyanyi (Chanting ocean) was awarded third place in a drama-writing contest organized by the Indonesian National Theater Development Agency.
[2] Since 1971 he has led the Teater Mandiri, widely regarded as Indonesia's foremost theater collective,[1] where his philosophy of creating a tontonan (spectacle) helps to establish a dialogue between author and audience.
[4] In 2010, his works took center stage when 28 of his monologues and four of his drama pieces were presented at the second Indonesian Theater Forum in Solo (Surakarta), Central Java.
As a script writer, he has twice won the Citra Award at the Indonesian Film Festival, for the movies Perawan Desa (1980) and Kembang Kertas (1985).
[6] They were staged [7] in Madison, Wisconsin and the production of Roar was brought to the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City.
In 2011 he participated in the launch of the Lontar Foundation's Modern Library of Indonesia, a series of Indonesian novels translated into English.