What was the best decision Brian Johns ever made? In 2005, Johns – legendary leader of Penguin Books Australia, publisher of Elizabeth Jolley, Thea Astley, Frank Moorhouse, and so many others, and later managing director of the ABC and SBS – nominated his publication of the Buru Quartet, by … [Read more...]
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the Buru Quartet: ‘At least I’ve told these stories to you’
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People from Bloomington: A Short Story Collection from Indonesia
May 19, 2022 by
The Indonesian writer Budi Darma came to Bloomington, in 1974. Like so many people who come to Bloomington, he was here for school. He was already an established literary figure in Indonesia, as a writer of absurdist short stories. He came here to get a Master’s degree in creative writing, then a … [Read more...]
Indiana Absurd
May 18, 2022 by
The late Budi Darma, one of Indonesia’s most beloved writers, spent a formative chapter of his life far from home, studying at Indiana University in the 1970s. He wrote a series of strikingly lonely short stories that would go on to form the collection People from Bloomington, first published in … [Read more...]