# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laksmi-pamuntjak
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:26:00.862Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laksmi-pamuntjak"
name: "Laksmi Pamuntjak"
slug: "laksmi-pamuntjak"
description: "Laksmi Pamuntjak is an Indonesian novelist, poet, journalist and food critic based in Jakarta. In 2016, she won the LiBeraturpreis for the German translation of her debut novel, Amba/The Question of Red. In 2018, the movie adaptation of her second novel, Aruna dan Lidahnya, won two prizes at the Festival Film Indonesia. In 2020, her third novel, Fall Baby, won the Singapore Book Award for Best Literary Work. She also writes widely on culture and politics, including for the Jakarta Post and the Indonesian newsmagazine Tempo, as well as international publications such as South China Morning Post and the Guardian."
tagline: "Indonesian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laksmi-pamuntjak.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-12-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.682182666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "লক্ষ্মী পামুণ্টজাক"
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    title: "Laksmi Pamuntjak"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laksmi_Pamuntjak"
    title: "Laksmi Pamuntjak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laksmi_Pamuntjak"
    title: "Laksmi Pamuntjak"
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  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laksmi_Pamuntjak"
    title: "Laksmi Pamuntjak"
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    title: "Laksmi Pamuntjak"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump