Lily Yulianti Farid was born and raised in Makassar, Indonesia. At present, she lives in Melbourne, Australia. She joined Hasanuddin University, Makassar as an agricultural engineering student, where she began her literary career with the campus’ publication, "Identitas". After graduation, she worked as a reporter of the "Kompas" daily from 1996 until 2000. In 2001, she went to the University of Melbourne for Master's degree in "Gender and Development". In 2010 she registered for Ph.D. in "Gender and Media" from the same university which is slated to be finished in 2014. While in Melbourne she continued her journalistic writing by working as producer of "Radio Australia" online during 2001-2004. From 2004-2009, Ly worked as a radio program specialist/producer of "Radio Japan NHK", Tokyo. During this period, in 2006 she also joined as a columnist for "Nytid News Magazine", Norway and is still associated with them...

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Gender : female

Date of Birth : 1971-07-16

Birth Place : Makassar, South Sulawesi