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He has written for Rolling Stone Indonesia, The Jakarta Post, and Mojok.co. Since 2016, he has joined Tirto.id news site as a writer, and later editor. He writes mostly about music, culinary, and travel, while occasionally writing sports features. In 2018, he received a scholarship for Journalist Training Program organised by Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School of Tallin University and Estonia Development Coorporation. Published a thesis on the Potential of Music Tourism as a New Tourism Alternative in Indonesia (2016), Nice Boys Don’t Write Rock N Roll (2017), and a translation anthology Cum On Feel the Noize (2018). In 2019, he received a scholarship from the National Book Committee and the Ministry of Education and Culture for a two-month residency in London. Her culinary book, Selama Masih Ada Sambal, Hidup Akan Baik-Baik Saja was released in 2021.

Agung’s work entitled “Tipu Muslihat Calo(n) Abdi Negara” published in Tempo magazine was chosen for successfully investigating the brokering practices behind the selection of honorary civil servant candidates for class 2 or K2. “This is thanks to the hard and compact work of the investigation team and the editor of Tempo magazine,” Agung said, responding to the award he received.

The award was directly handed over by the committee to Tempo Building in Palmerah, Jakarta, Tuesday, January 26, 2016.

Yusri Fajar was born in Banyuwangi, East Java. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Faculty of Literature, University of Jember and his master’s degree in literature at the University of Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany (2008-2010). In 2007, he attended a Short Course at Leeds University UK and in 2016 a visiting scholar program in Contemporary American Literature at the University of Louisville Kentucky USA (2016). He is currently pursuing his doctoral degree in the Sociology Study Program at Brawijaya University. Since 2003 Yusri has been a permanent lecturer at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Brawijaya. His writings are published in various newspapers and magazines such as Horison, Kompas, The Jakarta Post, Basis Magazine, Media Indonesia, and Jawa Pos.
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Book Works
1. Surat dari Praha (Short Story Collection, February, 2012)
2. To Those of You for Whom the Snow Waits (A Collection of Poems, March, 2017)
3. Literature that crosses borders and identities (A collection of essays, April, 2017)
4. Guest of Seoul City (Novel, December 2019)
5. The Path of Literary Criticism: Applications of Postcolonial Theory to Ecocriticism (2020)

Awards
1. 3rd winner of the Literary Criticism Competition of the Jakarta Arts Council 2022 with a manuscript entitled “Chairil Anwar ignored Nature?”
2. First Winner of the HISKI Bali Literary Criticism Competition and the Bali Provincial Language Center in 2020 with a manuscript entitled “Wisata “Wisata Bersama Amba: Traces of Political Prisoners, Natural and Cultural Potential of Buru Island”
3. Recipient of the Sutasoma Award from the East Java Language Center, 2017: Best Book of Essays/Literary Criticism with a book entitled “Literature that Crosses Borders and Identities”.
4. 2nd winner of the Literary Criticism Competition, Anugerah Sastra dan Seni UGM 2017 with a manuscript entitled “Lapindo Mud Tragedy”: Human Suffering and Natural Damage in the Poems of Tanggulendut by F Azis Manna”.
5. 2nd winner of the Literary Essay Competition “Jassin Transmission” held by BASIS Magazine and Bilik Literasi Solo, 2017 with an essay entitled “Food, Social Relations and Identity: Enjoying Poems in Alfian Dippahatang’s Magic Kitchen”.
6. Winner of the “Jassin Transmission” Literary Essay Competition held by BASIS Magazine and Bilik Literasi Solo, 2017 with an essay entitled “Indonesia in the Eyes of the Dutch in the Colonial Era: Uncovering History in Iksaka Banu’s Kumcer All for the Indies”.
7. His short story “Kota tanpa Bunga” was selected as the best short story in the 2014 MPU DKI Jakarta Writers’ Meeting.

Email: yusri_fajar@ub.ac.id