Amazon Publishing commits to publish Indonesian authors beginning in 2016. Spotlight part of $10 million investment to increase publication of international books into English SEATTLE—October 15, 2015—(NASDAQ: AMZN)—AmazonCrossing, the literary translation imprint of Amazon Publishing, today … [Read more...]
Indonesian Writers Share Their Stories at Frankfurt Bookfair
November 17, 2015 by
Litterateur, novelist and feminist Nurhayati Sri Hardini Siti Nukatin –popularly known as NH Dini- and writer Ahmad Tohari shared their stories at writers gathering In Conversation Kampong and City Tales at Indonesian Pavillion in Frankfurt Bookfair, Wednesday, October 14. [hide for="!logged"]NH … [Read more...]
Commentary: We miss you in Frankfurt, Mr. President
November 17, 2015 by
Indonesia this week shared the spotlight with Salman Rushdie, author of the novel Satanic Verses, which prompted the Iranian government to issue a fatwa against Rushdie in 1989, at the Frankfurt Book Festival, the largest annual gathering of its kind and the most prestigious. While Rushdie made … [Read more...]
World meet Indonesian literature at the Buchmesse
November 17, 2015 by
Frankfurt Buchmesse 2015. Indonesian literature is a mystery to most. But as the world’s most prominent book festival kicks off this week in Frankfurt, the “islands of imagination” hope to elevate their status on the international stage. “17,000 Islands of Imagination,” this year’s title of the … [Read more...]
Southeast Asian literary exchanges, K-12, Miriam College and Asean integration
November 17, 2015 by
[hide for="!logged"]IT IS true how good fortune smiles even when one is down and being kicked. For a teacher like me making a countdown to “early separation” that Miriam College is bent on implementing in 2016 (regardless whether it is violating general-education teachers’ constitutional right to … [Read more...]
