The characters in Linda Christanty's stories are placed in situations that force them to battle t...

Previous edition: Sydney, NSW, Australia: ETT Imprint, 1995.

Clara Ng's stories seem calm on the surface but they are liberally sprinkled with black humor and...

Intan Paramaditha's stories are infused with gothic and horror themes. Depicted with a feminine s...

Zeffry Alkatiri's collection of poems is a romp through history in verse. These poems are flashes...

Joko Pinurbo's poetry is immediately recognizable for its simple language, accessibility, and the...

The poetry of Hanna Fransisca is heavily-laden with Chinese cultural metaphors. The pleasures of ...

Azhari's reimagined stories of Aceh in the 17th century encompass a garden of extraordinary beaut...

A Student Named Hijo has been recognized for depicting a new Indonesian youth culture that has ad...

Abidah's work gives a voice to women. Women who are victims of polygamy, women who suffer domesti...

Taufik Ikram Jamil's poetry is filled with references to the geography, history and classic Malay...

Arrested as a leftist-activist in 1966, Putu Oka Sukanta was imprisoned until 1976. In The Starli...

Cok Sawitri's stories shed light on the lives of modern Balinese people and the various challenge...

History fascinates in the hands of M. Iksaka Banu. The stories in this collection feature well-cr...

Acep Zamzam Noor's poems wrap silence around images of death and failure. Beauty and, of course, ...

Set in a small hotel in Yogyakarta, this play is a tale of thwarted aspirations and the mundane r...

I La Galigo, the vast Bugis epic myth, is one of the most voluminous works in world literature. S...

Nirwan Dewant's poems invite readers to explore a world which, at a glance, might seem familiar y...

Ben Sohib's stories, often set in Jakarta and with their panoramic backdrop of urban Muslim life,...

Zen Hae's stories focus on Betawi people--the original inhabitants of Jakarta. His characters, of...

Warih Wisatsana's poems often present an unusual scene, which invites the reader to question the ...

Outside of Indonesia, little is known about the country's writers and their works. Helping to cha...

What distinguished Mona Sylviana's writing, is her willingness to look at the dark side of life a...

Yusi Avianto Pareanom's fictional characters are inseparable from their environment and cultural ...

Many of Gunawan Maryanto's stories are reinterpretations of Javanese literary texts which themsel...

These neatly-constructed post-modern tales demonstrate the author's skill at deception. Even in s...