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Indian Printer and Publisher / As Seen On
Mar 12, 2025

Indonesia joins as country partner for Kalinga Literary Festival

BRIN / What Media Says
Mar 08, 2025

A Century of Pramoedya Ananta Toer, BRIN Researcher Explores Historical and Humanitarian Ideas from Literary Works

Jakarta Post / What Media Says
Feb 11, 2025

Pramoedya Ananta Toer: A walking contradiction

Antara / What Media Says
Feb 10, 2025

Blora hosts festival for Pramoedya’s 100th birth anniversary

Faisal Oddang

Writer


Photo courtesy / credit goes to MIWF 2023
Born Makassar (Sep 18, 1994), currently resides in Makassar
Personal Web http://faisaloddang.tumblr.com
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Faisal Oddang, acclaimed Indonesian author, won the 2015 Tempo Magazine award for Puya ke Puya. Notable achievements include grants from Robert Bosh Stiftung and Literary Colloquium Berlin in 2018, Iowa International Writing Program participation in 2018, and the 2014 ASEAN Young Writers Award. Recognized as Best Short Stories Writer by Kompas Daily in 2014 and Tempo Magazine’s Prose Writer of the Year in 2015. He had a writer’s residency in the Netherlands in 2016 sponsored by the Indonesian National Book Committee. Faisal also founded Kabisat Publishers and serves as Curator for the 2022 and 2023 Makassar International Writers Festival. He’s a Hasanuddin University lecturer specializing in Indonesian Literature within the Faculty of Cultural Sciences.1

  1. UWRF 2023 ↩

Book(s)


Tiba Sebelum Berangkat
Novel
212 page(s), Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia (KPG)
Manurung: 13 Pertanyaan untuk 3 Nama
Poetry Collection
128 page(s), Gramedia Pustaka Utama
Dari Timur: Tulisan Pilihan Makassar International Writers Festival (Volume 1 – 2017)
Anthology
104 page(s), Gramedia Pustaka Utama
“Anak ini Mau Mengencingi Jakarta?”
("This Kid Wants to Urinate all over Jakarta?”)
Anthology
222 page(s), Penerbit Buku Kompas
Benang Ingatan
Anthology
page(s), Indie Book Corner
Puya ke Puya
Novel
230 page(s), Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia (KPG)
Di Tubuh Tarra, dalam Rahim Pohon: Cerpen Pilihan KOMPAS 2014
Anthology
220 page(s), Penerbit Buku Kompas
Saraswati: Wisdom & Knowledge, a Bilingual Anthology of Indonesian Writing
Anthology
300 page(s), Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati
Dunia Di Dalam Mata
Collection of Short Stories
282 page(s), Motion Publishing
Merentang Pelukan
Poetry Collection
146 page(s), Motion Publishing

In the Headlines


Ten Indonesian Writers selected for Emerging Writers Program

UWRF News / As Seen On
Apr 30, 2024

Ten Indonesian Writers selected for Emerging Writers Program

“Cemeteries Are Everyday Life”―Five Indonesian Writers Talk Pandemic Normality

Asia Center / As Seen On
Mar 08, 2022

“Cemeteries Are Everyday Life”―Five Indonesian Writers Talk Pandemic Normality

On Sounds

Asia Center / Translations
Jan 18, 2022

On Sounds

UWRF to ponder consequences of human actions

Jakarta Post / As Seen On
Oct 14, 2019

UWRF to ponder consequences of human actions

Makassar writers festival to return to Fort Rotterdam

Jakarta Post / As Seen On
May 01, 2018

Makassar writers festival to return to Fort Rotterdam

DKJ Literary Criticism Competition Sees Decline in Quality, Entries

Jakarta Globe / As Seen On
Sep 05, 2017

DKJ Literary Criticism Competition Sees Decline in Quality, Entries

A tale of two Sulawesi writers: Talent vs hard work

Jakarta Post / As Seen On
Jun 05, 2017

A tale of two Sulawesi writers: Talent vs hard work

The literary light from the east

Jakarta Post / As Seen On
May 29, 2017

The literary light from the east

Celebrating Indonesia’s literary fiction tradition

Jakarta Post / As Seen On
Jun 02, 2016

Celebrating Indonesia’s literary fiction tradition


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