Helvy Tiana Rosa

Helvy Tiana Rosa (born 2 April 1970) is an Indonesian playwright and writer. Rosa is a lecturer in literature at the State University of Jakarta. Rosa is recognised as an influential Moslem. She founded Forum Lingkar Pena which encourages young writers in 1997.

Rosa was born in Medan in 1970 but she moved to Jakarta where her younger sister Asma Nadia, who also became a writer, was born. She went to the Universitas Indonesia and gained a degree in Arabic literature. Whilst at university she wrote and directed her own plays. She has gained a master's degree. Rosa married Widanardi Satryatomo in 1995.

Her short story "The Red Nets" (Jaring-jaring Merah) was chosen as one of the most important of the 1990s by the influential magazine "Horison". She has published over 50 works which have been translated into English, German, Arabic, Swedish, Japanese and French. She founded the website for young writers named Forum Lingkar Pena and she edited the magazine for Islamic teenagers known as Annida. She is known for taking a Muslim approach to her work. She writes of how woman live in an Islamic culture run by men. She writes against the permissive use of pornography.

Rosa has been included in a list of the 500 most influential Muslims. She uses her short stories to encourage her readers to aspire for an Islamic "state".