Author Reda Gaudiamo hopes those who are passionate about writing do not give up easily on their dreams. Reda, who is also known as a one-half of folk duo AriReda, has just returned from the United Kingdom, where she underwent a two-month residency in the historic city of Norwich and promoted … [Read more...]
Author highlights Asian slavery at Cape of Good Hope
July 11, 2023 by
Isna Marifa's novel tells powerful, painful story through rare insights into everyday events In the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of people from what is now Indonesia and Malaysia were taken as slaves to the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa. Descendants of this population, who mixed with … [Read more...]
New International Fiction: Dark Histories, Daunting Labors
July 1, 2023 by
CROOKED PLOW (Verso, 276 pp., paperback, $19.95), by the Afro-Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Junior (and translated by Johnny Lorenz), offers a salt-of-the-earth paean to a land where “the blood of history flows like a river.” Life is hard on the Água Negra plantation in northeastern Brazil in the … [Read more...]
Award-winning author Norman Erikson Pasaribu discusses ‘Happy Stories, Mostly’
June 18, 2023 by
Winning the 2015 Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ) Poetry Book Competition, the author rocketed in 2022 with a short story collection, Cerita-cerita Bahagia, Hampir Seluruhnya (Happy Stories, Mostly). However, all that glitters might not be gold. Author Norman Erikson Pasaribu garnered quite the … [Read more...]
Why Indonesia is a gold mine for horror fans
May 2, 2023 by
American-Indonesian author Nadia Bulkin talks about her passion for horror fiction and how her Indonesian roots have influenced her writing. Even as a child, Nadia Bulkin always had a penchant for telling stories. Her mother said she would dictate stories for her before Nadia had learned how to … [Read more...]
