Carma Citrawati
Dewa Ayu Carma Citrawati (born 24 February 1990 in Denpasar) is an Indonesian short story writer, Balinese literature activist and Wikimedian. She was well known for pioneering tasks to digitize and translate ancient Balinese manuscripts which have been written on palm leaves. On 15 August 2021, she was conferred with the title Wikimedian Newcomer of the Year during the 2021 virtual Wikimania conference. Biography. She was born in her family as the eldest child in her family. She has four siblings. Career. She attended the SMA Negeri 1 Banjarangkan for her secondary education. She graduated from the Department  of Language and Literature of Bali at Udayana University. She completed her master's degree at the Department of Pure Linguistics at the Udayana University. She began her career working as a Balinese language teacher at SMPN 3 Denpasar from 2011 to 2018. She pursued her interest in the Balinese language at her young age as a hobby and she began researching about the history of the language which was on the danger of being abandoned in Indonesia due to the emergence of Indonesian language. She also writes short stories and poems in Balinese language. She wrote and published her  first short story anthology "Smara Reka" (2014) in collaboration with her husband. She later wrote another short story anthology titled "Kutang Sayang Gemel Madui" (2016) for which she received the Rancage Literary Award in 2017 from the Rancagé Cultural Foundation. "Kutang Sayang Gemel Madui" contains 13 short stories with the theme of social criticism. She was invited as a speaker at the 2018 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. She began being involved in the Wikimedia project in 2019 and developed WikiPustaka in order to build an online library consisting of Balinese language sources for the Balinese community. She was announced as  the Wikimedian Newcomer of the Year 2021 at the 2021 Wikimania conference.