Articles tagged "Indonesian"

Snacks in the Fashion Pages (Mag: Articles)

By Syahmedi Dean | June 1, 2010

Right up till Friday afternoon the casting location was still not settled. The several small meeting rooms in the Kuningan area were still too expensive for a small-scale casting that only involved…...

Translated from Indonesian by David Reeves

Binhad Nurrohmat in Cirebon (Dispatches)

By Andy Fuller | April 22, 2009

This reading was filmed on the north-central coast of Java in the port city of Cirebon. The film shows Binhad Nurrohmat reading a poem he wrote on a previous visit to the city. The title of the poem is…...

The Well is Someone’s Home (Mag: Articles)

By Dorothea Rosa Herliany | January 1, 2009

each time i dig into the well i never reach the bottom. i pass endless broken fragments of age. my breath is too short to climb all the way down, and my gaze too blind to fathom the top. hundreds of prayers…...

Translated from Indonesian by Harry Aveling

Womb (Mag: Articles)

By Cok Sawitri | January 1, 2009

My name is Nagari. Thirty years of age. There is no need to explain; I understand. . . . That evening, after my bath, my hair still wet, I heard a pounding on the door of my rented room. Three men had…...

Translated from Indonesian by John H. McGlynn

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