Through letters she wrote to her pen pals, Kartini expressed bold ideas on issues such as girls' access to education, opposition to polygamy and resistance to forced and child marriage.
2 weeks agoWriters chanted "Meta, Meta, book thieves" as they made their way to the Meta building, with some carrying placards reading "I'd write a sign but you'd steal it" and "Get the Zuck off our books", in reference to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
4 weeks agoThe platform, which includes photographs, archives and a list of Pramoedya’s works, marks the centennial commemoration of his life and legacy.
1 month agoLaunched at the 2019 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF), Storial AudioStory is available for some of the platform’s 31,000 titles by 100,000 Indonesian authors.
5 years agoNila Tanzil's latest book, The Art of Giving Back, celebrates the joys that come with giving to others.
5 years agoAsterix, the indomitable pint-sized Gaul forever outfoxing the Romans, returns this week for his 38th comic book adventure "Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter" featuring for the first time in its 60 year history a female heroine.
5 years agoA senior US official who penned a newspaper column anonymously last year warning of the dangers of President Donald Trump is coming out with a book.
5 years agoFrom being "embarrassed" about Brexit to losing sleep over the climate crisis, here's a look at what star authors had to say about the state of the world at this week's Frankfurt book fair, which ends Sunday.
5 years agoEdo Wallad used to spend his time rocking out with his dance-punk band The Safari at dingy underground clubs around town, but ever since then, he has found another channel for his creativity: poetry.
5 years agoTwo US authors have found a novel way to address the mass shootings that regularly plunge their country into mourning -- comic-book superheroes.
5 years agoIndonesia launched a comic book based on painter Raden Saleh's life on the first day of the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair.
5 years agoThe Swedish Academy has defended its decision to award the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke, saying he had made provocative comments but had not supported bloodshed.
5 years agoFive key novels by Canada's acclaimed author Margaret Atwood.
5 years agoJudges tore up the rule book on Monday, awarding the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction jointly to Canadian author Margaret Atwood for "The Testaments" and Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo for "Girl, Woman, Other".
5 years agoThe late literary figure Arswendo Atmowiloto could barely draw comics, but he was the one who worked tirelessly to shift Indonesian parents’ negative perceptions toward comic books.
5 years agoKarma – the theme of this year’s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF) – is derived from the Balinese Hindus’ spiritual principle of karma phala, where each action has a consequence equal in force, and similar in form.
5 years agoSpaces is a novel that transforms former political prisoner Putu Oka Sukanta’s historical memory – of being imprisoned without trial from 1966-1976 to withstanding torture and human rights abuses – into fiction.
5 years agoIndonesia's participation in the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair is to feature creative contents that are not limited to books, acknowledging the changing times and sensing opportunities for intellectual property licensing.
5 years agoIndonesians living abroad know how difficult it is to satisfy their longing for traditional Indonesian dishes.
5 years agoA copy of A Game of Thrones, George RR Martin’s first book in the series A Song of Ice and Fire, is seen in the arms of fictional character Wolfsbane in Marvel's "The New Mutants" comic.
5 years agoIt's the moment experts say that Tintin stopped being quite so racist, and began his long journey towards what we might now call culturally sensitive "wokeness".
5 years agoPapua remains a challenging issue for Indonesia’s sovereignty.
5 years agoPropaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia: Imagined Evil is the latest in overseas publications in English focusing on the events of Sept. 30.
5 years agoFestival season might be coming to an end, but some of the biggest names in music will help you get into the swing of fall with these highly anticipated memoirs, out in the coming months.
5 years agoThrough 14 short stories, the anthology highlights the social changes and cultural clashes experienced by South Koreans in their journey to becoming a modern society.
5 years agoMilea: Suara dari Dilan (Milea: Voice of Dilan) recounts the same teenage love story as written by Pidi Baiq in his two-part Dilan novels. But this time around, Pidi writes from the perspective of the male protagonist.
5 years agoThe library provides up to 3,276 Braille books and 462 audiobooks, ranging from fiction and nonfiction including biographies, religion and general knowledge.
5 years agoGrowing up in a small town called Tasikmalaya, Ali Muharam had dreams of becoming a writer but fate took him in another direction to become a successful snack entrepreneur.
5 years agoMargaret Atwood released the much-anticipated sequel to her award-winning 1985 novel "The Handmaid's Tale" on Tuesday, with "The Testaments" set to become a similar smash.
5 years agoA new book about sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, written by journalists who broke the story in 2017, details how his brother pleaded with him get help for his "misbehavior."
5 years agoHe may be one of the world's most famous musicians, but Paul McCartney is also just a regular grandfather - and that is the experience he draws on for his new children's book "Hey Grandude!".
5 years agoProminent writer Azhari Aiyub turns a group of armed bandits into heroes in his next novel.
5 years agoIn her debut novel, Ponti, Sharlene Teo explores a different side of Singapore to tell a tale about a vampiric ghost and the joys and angst of adolescence that haunt people into adulthood.
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