Even though the Pontas Agency has been attending the Frankfurt Book Fair uninterruptedly for 22 years since Anna Soler-Pont launched the company in 1992, the past edition has been, in many aspects, a book fair full of “firsts”. Five members of our team, in the photo below, attended the fair: Anna, … [Read more...]
Politics on poets’ mind
October 9, 2017 by
Freedom of expression is something worthwhile that we have to keep. Prolific writer and poet Sitor Situmorang, who died in 2004, was arrested in 1967 and imprisoned without trial for eight years at Salemba penitentiary in Jakarta during Soeharto’s authoritarian New Order regime for his … [Read more...]
Max Lane brings millennial generation closer to works of Pramoedya
October 8, 2017 by
The name Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia’s foremost writer who was born in 1925 and died in 2006, still resonates to this day, not just in Indonesia but internationally, bridging the cultural divide. However, can Indonesia’s millennial generation, whose “best friends” are their devices, … [Read more...]
Weekly Dispatches from the Frontlines of World Literature – October 6, 2017
October 7, 2017 by
We’re back with another week full of exciting, new developments in the world of literature! Our Editor-At-Large for Australia, Tiffany Tsao, updates us with a fresh report of prizes and publications and the inauguration of an exciting new festival. Julia Sherwood, Editor-At-Large for Slovakia, is … [Read more...]
Festivals are helping to put Asian literature on the map
October 5, 2017 by
LITERARY festivals around the world have long attracted scores of visitors – inquisitive, worldly, and waiting to meet their favorite authors. For instance, the Edinburgh International Book Festival – the biggest literary festival in the world – sees the historic Charlotte Square Gardens … [Read more...]
