Harry Aveling

Harry Aveling
Born 30 March 1942
Sydney
Pen name Harry Aveling
Occupation Academic translator
Language English
Nationality Australian
Genre Indonesian and Malay literature

Harry Aveling (born 1942 in Sydney) is an Australian scholar, translator and teacher. He specialises in Indonesian and Malaysian literature, and Translation Studies.[1][2] He received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy in Malay Studies from the National University of Singapore and Doctor of Creative Arts (DCA) from the University of Technology, Sydney. Besides his academic writing, he has translated extensively from Indonesian and Malay, from Vietnamese Francophone literature, and also co-translated from Hindi.[1][2] He has been awarded the Anugerah Pengembangan Sastra (Literature Development Award) for his translation work.[3] Aveling has two sons, a daughter and three granddaughters.

In the early 1960s Aveling began studying Indonesian and Malay. He lived in Malaysia for three years of "total immersion" during the 1970s. He later described this as a time when the Malaysian government was in desperate need for foreign professors to teach in their newly revitalised education system; Malay teachers during the period were earning doctorates abroad. By this time he had already translated several volumes.[4]

Aveling has held the rank of Adjunct Professor of Southeast Asian Literature at Ohio University since 2002. In 2001 Ohio University Press published his study of Indonesian poetry during the New Order under President Suharto, which outlined the development of the medium in its socio-historical context. Writing for The Jakarta Post, Lie Hua noted that it was perhaps the first such study but that it had several mistranslations.[5] By this time he had translated more than 50 volumes of Indonesian and Malay literature.[3] In 2006 he served as Visiting Professor of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia.[6]

Aveling was a Member of the Doctoral Studies Committee for the Faculty of English Linguistics and Literature, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and taught there in 2008 and 2009. In late 2010, he taught in the Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.[7] He is a Fellow of the Stockholm Collegium for World Literary History, Stockholm University, representing island Southeast Asia. He was President of the Australian Association for Literary Translation, 2005–2008, and is currently Immediate Past President of the Malaysia and Singapore Society, a regional subgroup of the Asian Studies Association of Australia.

He currently holds Adjunct Full Professorships in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University[2] and the School of Literatures, Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University,[8] both in Melbourne, Australia. In Fall 2014 he was Visiting Professor of English in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rampan, Korrie Layun (2000). Leksikon Susastra Indonesia [Lexicon of Indonesian Literature] (in Indonesian) (First Edition ed.). Jakarta: Balai Pustaka. p. 184. ISBN 979-666-358-9.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "La Trobe University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Staff profile page". 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Translator tells more than words can say". The Jakarta Post. 21 April 2002. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  4. ↑ Maria Gallucci (2009). "An Interview with Harry Aveling". Center for International Studies, University of Ohio. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  5. ↑ "Indonesian poetry: Revealing the truth that lies beneath". The Jakarta Post. 16 June 2002. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  6. ↑ "Universitas Indonesia Berita Fakulas Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya (FIB)" (in Indonesian). humas-ui on 29 May 2006. Retrieved 11 September 2012. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ↑ "Universitas Gadjah Mada Seminar / workshop". Submitted by marwati on Fri, 11 May 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2012. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ↑ "Monash University Faculty of Arts Staff profile page". 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2012.