Mochtar Lubis would have been 100 years old on Monday, the 7th of March 2022. He was a good friend and colleague of my father, Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana. Mochtar had a house on Jalan Bonang near the Proclamation monument in Menteng and another house in the mountains, near our house there. I remember … [Read more...]
Penguin Random House SEA’s Fall Baby awarded Best Literary Work at Singapore Book Awards 2020
March 19, 2022 by
Penguin Random House SEA (PRH SEA), one of the leading publishing houses in the region, is excited to announce that its publication Fall Baby by Laksmi Pamuntjak has been awarded the Best Literary Work at the Singapore Book Awards 2020. The award was announced at a live online event hosted on … [Read more...]
A spotlight on works in translation
March 19, 2022 by
This month’s translated works included a debut fiction collection from an Indonesian poet, an award-winning classic of Japanese crime fiction, and the latest work from the secret Italian superstar, Elena Ferrante. Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (tranlated from Indonesian by … [Read more...]
Sex in Indonesia: Menikah by novelist Jane Maryam
March 13, 2022 by
Jane Maryam is an Indonesian activist who works on gender and sexuality issues. She decided to embody those issues in a set of characters in a novel, including a polygamous wife, a lesbian and a transgender woman. She draws on the lives of her friends, on people she met through her work in NGOs, and … [Read more...]
Collection ‘People Without Genitals’ is equally humane as it is spooky
March 13, 2022 by
Short story collection Manusia Tanpa Kelamin (People Without Genitals) puts forth contemporary issues through a fictional lens Imagine if every single human being was born without sexual organs. Would we be able to stop sexual abuse and control our lusts? In the title story of her latest short story … [Read more...]
