Marga T

Marga Tjoa (27 January 1943 – 17 August 2023) was an Indonesian popular romance and children's literature writer better known by the pen name Marga T. One of Indonesia's most prolific writers, she first became well known in 1971 for her serial Karmila which was published as a book in 1973 and later made into a film. As of 2006, she had published 38 novels.

Biography Marga Tjoa was born Tjoa Liang Tjoe (; Hokkien: Chhoà Liâng-chu) to a Catholic Chinese Indonesian (peranakan) family in Jakarta in 1943. During this time she was also educated as a physician at Trisakti University. Both novels were adapted into movies, This early success convinced her to continue writing.

In 2004, Tjoa published A Bud of Hope to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the 1998 Jakarta Riots. It deals with the violence and rape of Chinese women during the riots.

Tjoa lived in Central Jakarta.

Chinese-Indonesian identity Tjoa was seen as trying to distance herself from her Chinese-Indonesian background during a period of legislation regarding Chinese culture in Indonesia, as evidenced by her use of a neutral pen name and a general disregard for Chinese culture and problems in her literary works. Her diction is also described as "identical to that of indigenous writers." As a result, many readers do not realize that Tjoa was Chinese-Indonesian.

Selected works Her works include: