{{Short description|Indonesian writer and musician (born 1962)}} '''Reda Gaudiamo''' (born 1962) is an Indonesian author and musician. Her birthplace was Surabaya in East Java.<ref name="BC">{{cite web |title=Reda Gaudiamo - Literature |url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/reda-gaudiamo |website=British Council |access-date=11 November 2022}}</ref> She formed a duo with Ari Malibu in 1982 called AriReda. At first they played covers of songs by John Denver and Simon and Garfunkel, then they released albums in which they set the poetry of Sapardi Djoko Damono to music.<ref name="Malibu">{{cite news |title=Musician Ari Malibu dies |url=https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2018/06/15/musician-ari-malibu-dies.html |access-date=12 November 2022 |work=Jakarta Post |date=15 June 2008}}</ref> The project ended with the death of Malibu in 2018 .<ref name="Malibu" /> She later told ''Kompas'' that the internet had helped their music to spread amongst young people.<ref name="Kompas">{{cite news |title=Reda Gaudiamo Berbagi Karya Sastra |url=https://entertainment.kompas.com/read/2016/10/16/150000910/reda.gaudiamo.berbagi.karya.sastra |access-date=11 November 2022 |work=Kompas |date=16 October 2016 |language=id}}</ref>
Gaudiamo wrote a children's book called ''The Adventures of Na Willa'' and promoted it in person at the 2019 London Book Fair after a two-month residency in the city of Norwich which had been funded by the National Book Committee.<ref name="BC" /><ref name="JP" /> Consequently, the book was brought out in English translation.<ref name="JP">{{cite news |last1=Ulung |first1=A. Kurniawan |title=Reda Gaudiamo's journey from aspiring writer to London Book Fair star |url=https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2019/04/21/reda-gaudiamos-journey-from-aspiring-writer-to-london-book-fair-star.html |access-date=11 November 2022 |work=The Jakarta Post |date=21 April 2019 |language=en}}</ref> She has worked as chief editor of ''Cosmopolitan Indonesia'' (founded in 1997), toning down the sexually explicit content of ''Cosmopolitan'' to satisfy the local censors.<ref name="Buzz">{{cite book |last1=Salzman |first1=Marian |last2=Matathia |first2=Ira |last3=O'Reilly |first3=Ann |title=Buzz: Harness the Power of Influence and Create Demand |date=25 April 2003 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-471-27345-5 |page=130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sf85DYe9140C |language=en}}</ref> She has also co-produced festivals such as Festival Musikal Indonesia.<ref name="JP3">{{cite news |last1=Hamdani |first1=Sylviana |title=Festival Musikal Indonesia aims to be the country's center of world-class musicals |url=https://www.thejakartapost.com/culture/2022/07/26/festival-musikal-indonesia-aims-to-be-the-countrys-center-of-world-class-musicals.html |access-date=11 November 2022 |work=The Jakarta Post |date=26 July 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
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