Bali's Literary Lions
With very little fanfare in the national press, the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival celebrated its 10th gathering last week in Bali, with a lineup of 174 writers from as far afield as Finland, Zimbabwe, Lebanon and Mexico, plus 16 of Indonesia's most exciting young writers.
October 22, 2013
SOME 30 or so other established Indonesian writers were also present, including Indonesia's preeminent man of letters, Goenawan Mohamad, who delivered the keynote address on opening day, bestselling authors Leila Chudori, Achmad Fuadi and Laksmi Pamuntjak, who lent their cachet to the event with individual launchings of the English versions of their books, and Ayu Utami and Dewi Lestari who spoke in several panels during the course of the five-day
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