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Guess what?: Sapardi adapts poem into novel

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Tue, June 16, 2015

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Guess what?: Sapardi adapts poem into novel

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Writer and poet Sapardi Djoko Damono has adapted one of his best-known poems, Hujan Bulan Juni (June Rain), into a novel.

He said he had taken six months to finish the adaptation.

'€œI wrote two novels simultaneously. Each needed six months to be completed,'€ the 75-year-old said as quoted by kompas.com.

The 144-page Hujan Bulan Juni novel, Sapardi added, was the first time he had adapted one of his own poems into a novel.

'€œPreviously, I adapted my poems into short stories,'€ he said. '€œAt first, the poem was adapted into a song, then a comic and now finally a novel. Everything was spontaneous.'€

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