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Surat dari Pejompongan: Keharuan
Kawan Moer, Di seruas jalan perdesaan di Slavetin, Republik Ceko—saat hendak mengunjungi desa kelahiran penyair Konstantin Biebl bersama beberapa mahasiswa dan dosen Studi Indonesia Universitas Charles, Praha, musim gugur 2017—aku pernah terharu oleh sebuah...
Ruminations by John McGlynn: What’s in a Name?
As an altar boy at Saint Anthony’s in my youth, when the Roman Catholic vernacular was Latin, I had to memorize all the Latin prayers of the Mass but my first true experience in trying to communicate in a foreign language was when I was in high school and the study of...
Ruminations by John McGlynn: Borders
Without translation I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. [The translator] introduces me to the world. Italo Calvino As a youngster, “vacation” was for me an unknown term. Never once in my memory did my parents...
Greetings from the Executive Director: May 2021
Do Indonesians have a culture of reading? Not really was the finding of experts debating the issue on the occasion of the National Book Day on May 17, which coincided with the establishment of the National Library 41 years ago. Despite the increasing number of books...
In Memoriam
Wikan Satriati 23 June 1975 - 25 April 2021 Wikan, a writer and a colleague at Lontar, passed away recently, and we deeply mourn her loss. In more than a decade of dedication to the translation and publication of books by Indonesian authors, she contributed immensely...
Greetings from the Executive Director: April 2021
First the sad news… We recently lost our friend and colleague Wikan Satriati, who had worked at Lontar for the past 11 years as assistant to the director of publications, managing everything from contracts to book launches. She passed away at her family home in...