Fifteen recently published titles by Lontar are now available for purchase online—through Amazon.com, various “sister-Amazons” (in Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan) and about 100 other online booksellers as well!
Those books are:
• The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Drama, Vols. 1-3; Menagerie 7: People Like Us!; I Am Woman!, Gadis Arivia, ed.; and the first ten titles in Lontar’s new Modern Library of Indonesia series, including:
• Never the Twain (Salah Asuhan)
The APWriters’ website (http://www.apwriters.com) went live in November 2008. In 2010, the site received 1,653,469 hits from 29,996 unique visitors. There were 241,381 pages opened over 54,478 visits.
In 2011, up only to the end May, the APWriters’ site has received more than half a million hits from 13,860 unique visitors.
Our prediction is that in 2011, APWriters will easily break the two-million hits-in-a-year mark with 70,000 visitors opening
Some of the papers, provocations and presentations delivered at the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership’s 2010 symposium ‘Writing Across Cultures’ are now available online in a special issue of TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. (http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue10/content.htm)
The Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership (aka ‘APWriters’) was formed with the support of the founding editor of TEXT, Nigel Krauth, who heads the Writing Program at Griffith
Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) mournfully announces that its beloved member Mr. ZHANG Jianhong passed away at a hospital in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province in east China, yesterday on New Year Eve. Mr. Zhang, also a Honorary Member of Melbourne PEN and PEN America centers, was a freelance writer better known by his penname Li Hong and a former prisoner of conscience who had been released on medical parole on 5 June 2010 after having served 3 years and 9 months
20 October 2010
The PEN All-India Centre strongly condemns the removal of Rohinton Mistry’s novel, Such A Long Journey, from the SYBA syllabus of the University of Mumbai’s Literature course. We also express our great disappointment at the manner in which politicians belonging to the supposedly centrist and liberal parties, including the Indian National Congress, have consented to this ban, demanded by the scion of a right-wing political party, the Shiv Sena.
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