![]() ![]() Well, I’m very, very glad - I’m very honoured. How does it feel to have been chosen for The London Book Fair? It’s a story about the kidnapping of activists in 1998, several months before president Soeharto resigned, before the reformation: 22 students were kidnapped, and only 9 people were released. ![]() ![]() ‘Laut’ means the sea, but it’s also the name of the character. John McGlynn was the translator and he translated the title as The Sea Speaks His Name. My most recent novel, published at the end of last year, is called Laut. My first ‘adult’ novel is called Pulang, is been translated into 5 languages including English. I was a fiction writer first, and then after college I studied in Canada to become a journalist. My first short story was published in a children’s magazine when I was 12 years old, so I’ve been writing for a long time. I actually started writing when I was kid. We discuss form, Indonesian Identity and what it's like to have another writer in the family. ![]()
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