Leading playwright, actor, director and all-around artist Norbertus Riantiarno, known best as N. Riantiarno or “Nano”, died on Friday morning in his home at the age of 73. The news was shared by his family on the Teater Koma Instagram account, as well as on the account of the late artist himself. … [Read more...]
Announcing The 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists
January 21, 2023 by
PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2023 Literary Awards. Our Awards are juried by panels of esteemed, award-winning authors, editors, translators, and critics. These authors are committed to recognizing their contemporaries, from promising debut writers to those who have had a … [Read more...]
Kita Pergi Hari Ini Kinda Review
January 14, 2023 by
I was there, on the Indonesian Book Twitter community, when this book dropped. It was freshly baked, and everyone in my timeline seemed to pre-ordered it together and read it immediately. Not me, though. It took me months after its release to buy this book. Mainly because 1) I have this … [Read more...]
Happy Stories, Mostly Kinda Review
January 14, 2023 by
Another short story collection review! This one comes from an Indonesian author, Norman Erikson Pasaribu; it has been translated to English in 2021 by Tiffany Tsao, and was longlisted in The 2022 International Booker Prize, also won The Republic of Consciousness Prize in 2022: Cerita-cerita Bahagia, … [Read more...]
Book Review: ‘Tjong’
January 7, 2023 by
Tjong (2022) is Herry Gendut Janarto’s second novel and takes as its main character a totok (Chinese-born) Chinese Indonesian, Tjong Kei Lin, born to an impoverished family in Guangzhou, China. In the first novel Yogya Yogya (2020), the main character, Gayuh is a peranakan Chinese (locally born), … [Read more...]
