This year’s Market Focus at London Book Fair is Indonesia; introducing the country’s “17,000 Islands of Imagination” to the international public and symbolising the intellectual and artistic richness of this incredibly diverse and multi-religious nation. To celebrate this, each Friday in the run-up … [Read more...]

The annual Stella Prize celebrating female writers has announced its shortlist from a longlist of 12 books and more than 170 original entries. The winner of the award, who will receive $50,000, will be announced at a ceremony in Sydney on April 12. Each shortlisted author receives $3000 in prize … [Read more...]

Asialink Arts through its Global Project Space (GPS) initiative announces a suite of phenomenal creative exchange projects for 2018. The selected artists and arts professionals were chosen from a national open call for proposals. Asialink Arts is awarding global creative exchange opportunities to … [Read more...]

A diverse list of books make up the latest round of PEN Translates award winners. These include new novels by László Krasznahorkai and Marie Darrieussecq; the debut short story collection by politician Selahattin Demirtaş, currently imprisoned in Turkey; a memoir by legendary Belgian filmmaker … [Read more...]

In 2015, a short story collection "Monsoon Tiger and Other Stories" by Indonesian author Rain Chudori was published by Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia (KPG), one of the biggest publishers of serious literature in Indonesia. The entire book was written originally in English. Rain published another … [Read more...]