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Sea of Memories: Intan Paramaditha in conversation with Leila S. Chudori

Join Indonesian writer and academic Intan Paramaditha as she engages in a dialogue with Leila S. Chudori, one of Indonesia’s most senior journalists and respected writers.

Yacinta Kurniasih’s Poetry Books

Check out Yacinta Kurniasih's latest poetry books published by the one and only Indonesian Feminist Journal Foundation.

Indonesian Notebook

Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters, as well as a newly recovered lecture by Wright, previously published only in Indonesian.

Tiffany Tsao’s The Oddfits

Eight-year-old Murgatroyd Floyd doesn’t fit in—not as a blue-eyed blonde living in Singapore, not in school, and certainly not with his aloof expatriate parents, who seem determined to make his life even harder.

‘Self-translation’

All literary translation involves aspects of ‘self-translation’ but what additional factors come into play when one translates poems one has written in one language into one or more other languages? Ian Campbell discusses this question in two case studies in the light of his experiences in self-translating poems into new contexts.

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