Clips have become a sophisticated industry and some are even shining examples of art. But clips and books are still a quite unusual combination. Till today I wasn’t aware of this rather fresh and promising development: to use clips to promote books. In a way that’s similar to the one it’s used for pop music. [...]
What happens when you love literature and strong women? Well, at one moment in your life you are bound to hit upon a selection of books about (fictional) strong women. Well, actually it happened several times. And here is the last one. In this case only about Anglo-Saxon books and strong leading characters. The [...]
The colder the climate is, the more people seem to read books. Iceland with it’s dark winters, lots of wet weather and low temperatures is renowned for this phenomenon. The downside of this is that in tropical countries like Indonesia, people usually prefer different occupations. If I had wanted to write some satire, [...]
In Indonesia and in the Netherlands Indonesian authors did draw attention.
Three of them got a Khatulistiwa Literary award last Friday. They are: Farida Susanti (Best Young Writer 2007; “And the rain stops”), Gus tF SAkai ( Best Prose 2007; “Migrant”) and Acep Zamzam Noer (Best Poet 2007; “Being a poet again”).
At the same [...]
Accepting or permitting others’ religious beliefs and practices, that nice. And it impressive if you can accept other’s beliefs if they disagree with one’s own. And we do have a lot of religions in the world. So some tolerance would come in handy. Next to the established religions like Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism you’ll find [...]