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Starting August 2019 Okky has been working on her PhD thesis on cultural censorship in Indonesia's post totalitarian era with the National University of Singapore (NUS) under a full scholarship from the university.

Encouraged by the good reception, Okky quickly wrote the second of the series, titled Mata dan Rahasia Pulau Gapi (Mata and the Secret of Gapi Island), which is based on Okky's trip to Ternate Island. In this novel Matara and her new friends are trying to help save the great legacies of Ternate Island, with Okky mixing the crucial place of the island in the world history, including it as a center of global trade and describing it as the place where British great naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace once lived and corresponded with Charles Darwin, and the imaginary world and miracles on the island. Again, the novel has been greatly welcome. In early 2019 Okky published the third novel of the series titled Mata dan Manusia Laut (Mata and the Sea People) based on their trip to Wakatobi Island in Southeast Sulawesi. In this novel, Matara hangs out with her friends from Bajo (Bajau) community, who live on the sea in several places in Southeast Asia. This novel has also been warmly received. The fourth and the final book of the series, called Mata di Dunia Purba (Mata in the Old World) is currently being written.

In December 2019, based on her Master's thesis, Okky published her first non-fiction book titled Genealogi Sastra Indonesia: Kapitalisme, Islam dan Sastra Perlawanan (Genealogy Indonesian Literature: Capitalism, Islam and Critical Literature) in the form of digital book in her official website www.okkymadasari.net. The book, Okky's 10th published book and can be freely downloaded and printed from the website, has been enthusiastically received by the public, causing the website to temporarily crash as so many people download it at the same time in the first day of its launch. Many people appreciate Okky's willingness to provide the book freely, praising it as rare move and greatly helping ordinary people to have access to literature works previously inaccessible.

Doctoral Program Okky is currently a PhD candidate with the Malay Studies Department of the National University of Singapore (NUS) under a research scholarship from the university since 2019. Apart from receiving NUS Research Scholarship, she was also awarded the Dean's Fellowship, a very prestigious award of the NUS, and will only be offered to the top incoming PhD students She is now doing her PhD thesis on cultural censorship in Indonesia after the fall of Suharto as she believes that rather than disappearing censorship in post Suharto has been more frequent, especially in the Joko Widodo presidency. She has been expressing how proud and honored she has been to be with the Malay Studies Department, which she says among the first, if not the first, to seriously develop social theories by using local and indigenous sources of knowledge as opposed to just be dependent on Western sources.

Since 2018, Okky has begun writing children novels, and subsequently publishing three children novels of Mata Series, titled Mata di Tanah Melus (2018), Mata dan Rahasia Pulau Gapi (2018) and Mata dan Manusia Laut (2019). The final of the series called Mata di Dunia Purba is currently being written.

Inspired by her daughter's nightly before-sleep request for story telling, she embarked on writing novels for children in early 2018, and finished her first children's novel, Mata di Tanah Melus (Mata in the Land of Melus) in the middle of the same year. The novel tells a story about adventure of 12-year-old Matara and her mother in a fantasy world in Belu, East Nusa Tenggara. The novel becomes the first of children adventure series, called Mata Series, and has been well received either by the public and literary critics, with one analyst praising it as a progressive work important to Indonesia's children literature.

Also on issue of fundamentalist penetration as wearing of hijab is becoming common across Indonesia, Okky criticizes it in her Jakarta Post's article in July 2018 as a force for uniformity, citing the fact that the authorities actually require students to wear hijab in school, and stating that those not wearing hijab are facing bullying and threats.

NUS Resident Writer/Visiting Fellow From January to June 2018, Okky was invited as resident writer and visiting fellow by the National University of Singapore.She delivered speeches about literature and society in front of Singaporean audiences at various venues, including schools, art center, communities.

In 2017 she published her first anthology of short stories titled Yang Bertahan dan Binasa Perlahan (Resisting and Fading Away), summing up various issues influential to Indonesia, and summarizing her short story writing within a decade. Short stories in the collection show consistency in Okky's interest and focus on human struggle to cop with limitation and conflicts, turning a real life daily events into exciting chronicles of life. This underrated collection also confirms Okky's unique story telling and range in mastery of issues, from very personal and private life of an individual to conflict in families to political corruption and religious hypocrisy in Indonesia.

Iowa International Writing Program In 2017, Okky was selected by the US government to represent Indonesia for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, US, from August to October 2017, where she engaged in various programs with local community, including speaking about Indonesia's culture to local and international audience. That year, the legendary program celebrated its half a century anniversary.

European Speeches In 2017, Okky was invited to speak at the Berlin Literature Festival in Germany on literature and about her works as well as about Indonesia in general. A year before Okky was invited by University of Warwick in United Kingdom to speak about the role of culture and literature in forging ASEAN prosperity and unity. In 2015, she was invited by the Austrian government to speak at the Islam and Women's Contemporary Literature in Hittisau, Austria. In October that year, okky was one of Indonesian writers featured at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where Indonesia was the guest of honor. In 2014, Okky was invited to speak about literature and society at the Douarnenez Film Festival in France.

Iowa International Writing Program In 2017, Okky was selected by the US government to represent Indonesia for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, US, from August to October 2017, where she engaged in various programs with local community, including speaking about Indonesia's culture to local and international audience. That year, the legendary program celebrated its half a century anniversary.

Her fifth novel, Kerumunan Terakhir, was published in May 2016. In this novel Okky tries to capture how digital phenomena and social media take over people's lives, with new generation confusing reality with virtual activities. The novel was then translated into English under the title of The Last Crowd.

In the 2016 festival, the Indonesian police were trying to ban the festival by withdrawing the permit it had previously issued due to protests from militant organisations against the festival's insistence to prominently feature discussions of LGBT and 1965 Communist massacre issues. But with public support and the organizers' persistence, the festival prevailed, and gained even more wide coverage and popularity subsequently.

In her essay for Griffith Review titled Islam, Capitalism and Literature in 2015, she describes penetration of Islamic fundamentalist teachings into fiction, especially novels, without nobody seemingly aware of it, criticizing publisher's ignorance in this regard and stating that the publishing companies pay no attention to the contents as these so-called Islamic novels do sell millions of copies. She then warns the death of serious and critical literature and the wider and wider penetration of fundamentalist teachings among young Indonesians. She followed this essay by writing article on the same issue for Jakarta Post in subsequent year, titled Questioning Islamic Label of Books and Films, criticizing the misuse of Islam in the literary, art and cultural products for mere sales and stating instead that the books and films are not Islamic at all.

Southeast Asian Engagement Okky has been invited to speak at Singapore Writer Festival, Philippine Literary Festival and Kuala Lumpur Book Fair. She co-founded the ASEAN Literary Festival in 2014, and is the program director of the festival. In 2019, Okky was nominated for Southeast Asia's Women of the Future Awards for her contribution in advancement of the region's culture.

Okky in 2014 co-founded (with Indonesian journalist Abdul Khalik) the ASEAN Literary Festival with aims among others to introduce ASEAN writers and their works to the global world while providing medium for writers to exchange ideas and works so that they are familiar with each other in helping shape the so-called ASEAN community. The first ASEAN Literary Festival took place in Jakarta in March, 2014. The festival quickly becomes one of the region's most important annual cultural events.

Her first novel Entrok, an epic about life under totalitarian and militarism during the Indonesia's New Order era, has been translated into English and was published in July 2013 under the title of The Years of the Voiceless. Her three subsequent novels, 86, Maryam and Pasung Jiwa, have also been translated into English under the title of 86, The Outcast and Bound respectively. Pasung Jiwa also has been translated in German under the title Gebunden in 2015. The novel has also been available in Arabic as it has been published in Egypt since 2019.

Pasung Jiwa is her fourth novel, released in May 2013. It addresses individual struggle to break free from his or her own individual limitation as well as the containment of norm, tradition, religion, state and economic dominance of the few rich. The novel was shortlisted by the Khatulistiwa Literary Award in 2013. Pasung Jiwa has also been translated into English under the title of Bound in July 2014 and translated into German under the title Gebunden. Five years later, it was translated into Arabic and published in Egypt.

Okky Puspa Madasari known as Okky Madasari is an Indonesian novelist, essayist and academic. She won an Indonesian major literary prize, the Khatulistiwa Literary Award, in 2012 for her third novel, Maryam. At the age of 28, she is the youngest ever to win this prestigious award. Her novels were shortlisted three years in a row by the award's judges.

Okky has published 10 books since 2010, and is known for her exquisite portrayals of the social and political conditions in Indonesia, focusing her writing on resistance against injustice and the struggle for freedom and humanity in her five novels, one short story collection and a series of children's novels.. Her 10th book is a non-fiction titled Genealogi Sastra Indonesia: Kapitalisme, Islam dan Sastra Perlawanan (Genealogy of Indonesian Literature: Capitalism, Islam and Critical Literature), which tracks the origins of Indonesia's novels today. It was published online in December 2019 and can be freely downloaded from her website www.okkymadasari.net.

Okky's first novel, Entrok (2010), tells a story about how Indonesians live under the ruthless dictatorship of Suharto's regime and how they struggled to survive under oppression of the military's dominance. Her second novel 86 (2011) vividly describes the prevalent corruption within the country and especially among its civil servants The novel was shortlisted as top five in the Khatulistiwa Literary Award in 2011. Her third novel Maryam (2012) which describes how Ahmadis are violently thrown away from their own home and homeland with the government turning won the 2012 Khatulistiwa Literary Award. The novel has been translated into English under the title of The Outcast, and it's available in bookstores since March 2014.

Bachelor and master's degree Okky graduated from Gadjah Mada University's International Relations Department in 2005 with bachelor's degree in Political Science. In 2012, she pursued her master's degree in sociology with the University of Indonesia, and graduated in July 2014.

Okky is married to Abdul Khalik, a journalist with English-language newspapers in Indonesia (The Jakarta Post, 2003-2012, and Jakarta Globe, 2012–present). They met when both of them covered the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in Bali in January 2008 before they married in December 2008. In each of her novels, she acknowledges her husband as the first reader and her partner in discussing ideas for her novels.

She demanded the revision of the national curriculum to include what was actually happened during the 19965-1966, and arguing Indonesian authorities to officially acknowledge and admitted the massacre, and apologize to the victims.

The book has received very positive review from critics, with one stating that it is a welcomed effort to seriously discuss again Indonesian literature while other claiming that the book is the first attempt since Ariel Heryanto, now a professor at Monash University in Australia, in 1985 with his book Perdebatan Sastra Konstektual (Debating Contextual Literature), which elaborates idea of Sastra Kontekstual from Arief Budiman, one of Indonesia's greatest thinkers, to really discuss Indonesian literature seriously and comprehensively.

Okky was born on October 30, 1984 in Magetan, East Java, Indonesia. She graduated from Gadjah Mada University’s International Relations Department in 2005 with bachelor's degree in Political Science. She has chosen to become a journalist and writer ever since her graduation. In 2012, she pursued a master's degree in sociology with the University of Indonesia, and graduated in July 2014 with a thesis titled Genealogi Novel Indonesia: Kapitalisme, Islam dan Sastra Perlawanan (Genealogy of Indonesian Novels: Capitalism, Islam and Critical Literature).. The thesis was published as book in December 2019 and can be freely downloaded and printed from Okky's official website www.okkymadasari.net.

On Freedom of expression, censorship and omission in the Indonesian history, he argued the government to honest, open up and solve various past human rights abuses and killings, including 1965 massacre, and abduction of activists around 1998 movement against Suharto, especially Wiji Thukul case.,