Marga T

Marga T
BornTjoa Liang Tjoe
(1943-10-23)23 October 1943
Djakarta, Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies
Died17 August 2023(2023-08-17) (aged 79)
Jakarta, Indonesia
Pen nameMarga T
OccupationAuthor
LanguageIndonesian
NationalityIndonesian
EducationTrisakti University
Period1969–20??
GenreRomance, Children's

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.