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‘Nowhere, everywhere and anywhere’: Tari Lang on exile and Indonesia in 1965
Forced into exile by the trauma of 1965, Tari Lang revisits a country she loves and its unfinished struggle for freedom in her memoir, My Neighbour, The Dictator.
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Dutch royal family backed colonial rule from the beginning, study finds
A study involving around 60 researchers finds that the House of Orange-Nassau supported colonial violence, forced labor and slavery, even when its direct political power was limited. ...
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Top-selling novelist denies AI use, admits plagiarism 'mistakes'
Thelyson Orelien, 38, was accused of using artificial intelligence to write his French-language novel about migration "C'etait ca ou mourir" ("It Was Either That Or Die"), which was set to be translated in more than 20 countries. ...
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Intan Paramaditha’s novel wins PEN’s two prestigious grants
Celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha has been awarded two prestigious grants from international writers’ association PEN, which will be used to translate and publish her most recent book.
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Book Review: In 'The Rooster Bar', student loans John Grisham’s latest social injustice
The Rooster Bar presents main characters that get disillusioned to not only the judicial system, but economic and social system as a whole, very early in the story.
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Big Bad Wolf book sale to return to Jakarta in March
The popular annual Big Bad Wolf (BBW) book sale is slated to return to Jakarta from March 1-11.
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Sponsor pulls out of Britain's Man Booker prize
Investment firm Man Group is ending its long-running sponsorship of Britain's prestigious Man Booker prizes for novels, both sides announced on Sunday.
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Cairo book fair's gleaming new site opens far from historic market
The annual Cairo International Book Fair opened this week in a shiny new venue far away from the city's historic book souk.
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'Fifty Shades' author announces steamy new 'Cinderella romance'
The author of the blockbuster "Fifty Shades of Grey" novels is returning with a new, erotic book that she calls a "Cinderella romance for the 21st century."
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Japanese manga queen Rumiko Takahashi wins top French prize
Japanese manga creator Rumiko Takahashi has become only the second woman to win the top prize at France's biggest graphic novel festival.
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Poetry sales rise — thanks to millennials in search of meaning, clarity
A total of 1.3 million poetry books were sold in 2018 alone, with two-thirds of its buyers younger than 34 years old, as per UK book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan.
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Canada acquires rare book previously owned by Adolf Hitler
Library and Archives Canada announced Wednesday it had acquired a rare 1944 book that once belonged to Adolf Hitler.
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TIM’s signature bookstore to soon become a memory
A beloved Jakarta secondhand bookstore, Bengkel Deklamasi, nestled in a corner of the Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) cultural center, is to soon become history.
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Indonesia to create ripples at 2019 London Book Fair
“The London Book Fair is not entirely about books,” said Laura, “There will be cross-media promotion. Good content can be translated into anything, from movies to games.”
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'The sound to my voice': Norman Erikson Pasaribu on translator Tiffany Tsao
“A translation is an act of reassembling a body. Tiffany has given a sound to my voice. The translation process is as important as the writing itself," said Norman Erikson Pasaribu, author of Sergius Seeks Bacchus.
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Online bookstores take over
Online platforms continue to shine, offering comfort to get your hands on a wide range of things, including your preferred books.
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Braille technology firm builds 'Kindle for the blind'
A British company plans to launch a Braille e-reader for blind people this year.
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Didik Nini Thowok, the dance maestro
Former journalist Herry Gendut Janarto showcases a very fluid writing style in the biography that tells the story of Indonesia’s dance maestro Didik Nini Thowok.
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Mohammed Hanif on 'Red Birds', war and white people's writings
The Jakarta Post talks to Hanif about his newest book Red Birds, a satire on the American military and foreign policy.
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Sally Rooney is youngest-ever Costa Novel winner
Twenty-seven-year old Irish author Sally Rooney has become the youngest-ever Novel winner in the Costa Book Awards.
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Michael Vatikiotis and his intriguing insights on Southeast Asia
Seasoned American journalist Michael Vatikiotis believes in the power of people to address protracted conflicts in Southeast Asia.
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'Brex-lit': Social tensions inspire British novelists
With Britain's decision to leave the EU exposing fault lines across society, fiction writers are responding with an increasing array of Brexit-infused work -- from state-of-the-nation novels to futuristic satire.
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Malang teacher speaks out over ban of books on communism
Hutri Agustino of Muhammadiyah University Malang says the public deserves free access to books.
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Amos Oz, author who chronicled Israel's struggles, dead at 79
Amos Oz, Israel's best-known author, died of cancer at the age of 79 on Friday, his daughter said.
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2018 in review: The peaks and valleys of Indonesia's literary scene
Offline bookstores struggle to stay relevant in the digital era, while emerging writers are finding new platforms for seeing their works in print.
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Book Review: 'The Corset', supernatural elements in Victorian reality
"The Corset" tells the story of two distinctive characters, as well as the marriage between cruel reality and supernatural elements.
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'Pay attention to detail' and other writing tips from Leila S. Chudori
Having been a writer for a long time, Leila has so many practical fiction writing tips that she would like to share with aspiring young writers.
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Historic library weaves 'Harry Potter'-style tourist magic in Rio
From the outside, it looks like another historic edifice in Rio's rundown city center. Inside, however, is a multi-tiered library so spectacular, so ornate, that stunned visitors feel like they've walked into a movie fantasy set.
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Houellebecq keeps France guessing with 'angry' new novel
Having praised Donald Trump last week as "one of the best American presidents", Michel Houellebecq, the ageing bad boy of French letters, may have another shock up his sleeve.
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'Urip iku Urub': Celebrates the achievements of British historian Peter Carey
Since conducting his first research in Indonesia in 1970s, Carey has shed light on the life and struggle of Diponegoro.
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'Testimony of Changes': Having a say on everything
Despair needs no tour guide in Indonesia — chaotic traffic, trash-clogged drains, poverty and corruption — if the list had an official stop sign it would be dug up and sold.
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Rain Chudori: Rattling cages with Comma Books
When The Jakarta Post sat down with author Rain Chudori on Sunday, what emerged was her many other roles in Comma Books, the publishing initiative she founded.
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Rare Proust book sells for world record 1.5 million euros
The rare copy of the first volume of the French writer's masterpiece, "Remembrance of Things Past", had been expected to go for between 600,000 and 800,000 euros.
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