12 Facts About Carma Citrawati

Carma Citrawati is well known for pioneering tasks to digitize and translate ancient Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts.

Carma Citrawati was born in her family as the eldest child in her family.

Carma Citrawati was married to I Gede Gita Purnama Arsa Putra, known as Bayu Gita, who died on 25 February 2023.

Carma Citrawati attended the SMA Negeri 1 Banjarangkan for her secondary education.

Carma Citrawati then graduated from the Department of Language and Literature of Bali at Udayana University and completed her master's degree at the university's Department of Pure Linguistics.

Carma Citrawati then began her career working as a Balinese language teacher at SMPN 3 Denpasar from 2011 to 2018.

Carma Citrawati pursued her interest in the Balinese language at a young age as a hobby and began researching about the history of the language, which was in danger of being abandoned in Indonesia due to the emergence of the Indonesian language.

Carma Citrawati writes short stories and poems in the Balinese language.

Carma Citrawati wrote and published her first short story anthology Smara Reka in collaboration with her husband, I Gede Gita Purnama Arsa Putra.

Carma Citrawati later wrote another short story anthology titled Kutang Sayang Gemel Madui for which she received the Rancage Literary Award in 2017 from the Rancage Cultural Foundation.

Carma Citrawati began her involvement 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.

Carma Citrawati was announced as the Wikimedian Newcomer of the Year at the 2021 Wikimania conference.