The 2025 Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ) Novel Competition returns as one of Indonesia’s most prestigious literary competitions, celebrating its 51st year of championing emerging and established voices in … [Read more...]
Indonesia Promotes Literary Diplomacy Through BRICS Literature Award
October 29, 2025 by
The Language Development and Cultivation Agency of Indonesia continuously promotes the internationalization of Indonesian literature on the global stage. The initiative aims at fostering cultural diplomacy and collaboration among writers from BRICS member countries. During the BRICS Literature … [Read more...]
Literature Marks the Times
October 23, 2025 by
Every literary work always marks its era, without exception. Nevertheless, the innovator forges their own path, boldly rejecting conventional rules. Chairil Anwar, a 20th-century Indonesian poet, pioneered the liberation of Indonesian poetry from all forms of constraint and structural rigidity … [Read more...]
Will South-east Asia ever win its first Nobel Prize in literature?
October 21, 2025 by
South-east Asia, with a population of over 700 million, has exactly zero Nobel laureates in literature out of the 122 awarded. Have no worthy writers come out of the region or are the prize’s opaque processes unfair, unadventurous, unenlightened and simply unbothered by a far-flung and variegated … [Read more...]
The Universe Unfolds: Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2025
October 2, 2025 by
A Celebration of Global Storytelling The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) is set to return from October 29 to November 2, 2025, with a stellar lineup of Indonesian and international storytellers. The festival's theme, "Aham Brahmasmi – I Am the Universe," invites participants to explore … [Read more...]