{"id":1367,"date":"2019-10-28T12:05:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hydromedbali.com\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T08:54:46","slug":"five-speakers-ubud-writers-readers-festival-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hydromedicalbali.com\/ru\/five-speakers-ubud-writers-readers-festival-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Speakers at Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 16th<\/sup> Ubud Writers & Readers Festival just over this week, and it was a perfect place to be for all literate and art lovers.<\/p>\n

This truly annual pilgrimage for lovers of literature and conversation, the festival is a platform for a mutual exchange and cross-cultural dialogues. A place where both authors and audiences alike can discuss shared inspirations, ideas and concerns.<\/p>\n

There will be more than 150 writers and authors around the globe gathered in this magnificent Southeast Asia\u2019s biggest celebrated festival of words, ideas and artistic events but here is some hints for the must see ones.<\/p>\n

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  1. Bechrouz Boochani<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Born in Ilam, Iran on the 23rd<\/sup> of July 1983, this Iranian Kurdish journalist, writer, film maker, poet, refugee advocate as well as human rights defender knows his fields perfectly well. He has described himself as \u2018the child of war\u2019 referring to the 1980s war between the Iraqi Ba\u2019athists and Iranian zealots fought largely in his Kurdish homeland in West Iran.<\/p>\n

    Graduated from Tarbiat Modares University and Tarbiat Moallem University, both in Iran, with master\u2019s degree in political science, political geography and geopolitics, Boochani<\/strong>\u00a0 began his journalistic career writing for the student newspapaper in Tarbiat Modares University before working as a freelance journalist for several Iranian newspapers. As a member of Kurdish Democratic Party, outlawed in Iran and National Union of Kurdish Student, he was watched closely.<\/p>\n

    After some incidents with the government he and some of his fellow asylum seekers fled Iran and were detained first on Christmas Island and after one month got transferred to Manus Island Detention Centre in 2013. While living in this Island, Boochani has had many of his articles published in online news and other media. He has also published poems online and narrates his story in the award-winning animated short documantery film \u2018Nowhere Lines: Voices of Manus Island\u2019 made by UK film maker Lucas Shrank in 2015. \u00a0The film \u2018Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time\u2019 was shot inside the Manus Island Detention Centre by Boochani enterily by a mobile phone and was released on June 11th<\/sup> 2017 at The Sydney Film Festival. In February 2018 he wrote an article about the murder of his friend Reza Barati during riots in the camp in 2014 and the injustice of the events that followed.<\/p>\n

    March 2018 the full length documentary \u2018Stop The Boats\u2019 directed by Simon V Kurian was released featuring Boochani and others. July 2018 his memoir \u2018Now Friend But The Mountains\u2019 writing form Manus Prison was published by Picador. Written in prose and poetry, it chronicles his boat journey from Indonesia, his detainment in Manus Island and the lives (and deaths) of other prisoners as well as observations on Australian guards and the local Papuan people. It won The Victorian Prize for Literature and The Victorian Premier\u2019s Prize for non-fiction on January 2019.<\/p>\n

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    1. Jenny Zhang <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Born in Shanghai China in 1983, Zhang was five years old when she immigrated to New York Cuty to join her father who at that time was studying Linguistic at New York University and mother who had come to the United States after the Chinese Cultural Revolution.<\/p>\n

      However, her father withdrew from his PhD program he was enrolled in, began to work as a teacher then re-enrolled for computer programming. Then eventually with the family he moved to Long Island where he opened and ran a computer repair business. Zhang has a younger brother, and after college she moved to San Fransisco where she worked as a union organizer for Chinese home healthcare workers and as an organizer for the writer non-profit 826 Valencia which helps children and young adults learn how to write.<\/p>\n

      Actally from 2011 to 2014, Zhang was a regular contributor to the online magazine for teen girls \u2018Rookie\u2019 for she has written both fiction and nonfiction since the magazine\u2019s inception. In 2012, Zhang published a collection of poetry called \u2018Dear Jenny, We All Are Find\u2019 which were submitted to a contest to a small press, Octopus Books. In 2014 Lena Dunham asked Zhang to join a promotional tour of her book \u2018Not That Kind Of Girl\u2019 which later led Dunham publishing Zhang\u2019s 2017 book \u2018Sour Heart\u2019.<\/p>\n

      In 2015, she wrote an essay \u2018Hags\u2019 and published another essay called \u2018How It Feels\u2019 which was nominated for a National Magazine Award. She also wrote an issues of racism in the literary community for Buzz Feed.<\/p>\n

      August 2017 \u2018Sour Heart\u2019 was published by Lena Dunham\u2019sLenny Books imprint on Random House and in May 2019 it was announced that \u2018Sour Heart\u2019 would be made into a movie, to be directed by Kathy Yan. Jenny Zhang received honors and many awards from her writings.<\/p>\n

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      1. Nuvoyo Rosa Tshuma <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        This writer author was born on the 28th<\/sup> of January 1988 in Bulawayo, a maor city in Zimbabwe. She completed her high-school education in Girl\u2019s College Bulawayo where she studied Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Frenchfor he A levels. She is also an alumni of Witwatersrand University where she studied Economics and Science.<\/p>\n

        In 2009 her short story \u2018You In Paradise\u2019 won the Intwasa Short Story Competition (Now the Yvonne Vera Award) for short fiction before shot to recognition in 2013 following the release of her collection \u2018Shadows\u2019 which was published by Kwela Books. \u2018Shadows\u2019 was nominated at the 2014\u00a0Etisalat Prize for Literature\u00a0and also won the\u00a0Herman Charles Bosman Prize.<\/p>\n

        In 2014, Tshuma was listed as part of\u00a0Africa39, a collaborative project by\u00a0Hay Festival\u00a0and Rainbow Book Club recognising 39 of the most promising writers from Africa under the age of 40.\u00a0A one-time Magtag Fellow at the MFA Creative Writing Programme at the\u00a0University of Iowa, Tshuma is presently pursuing her PhD at the\u00a0University of Houston’s Literature & Creative Writing Programme.<\/p>\n

        Tshuma’s novel,\u00a0House of Stone, has been shortlisted for the 2019\u00a0Dylan Thomas Prize. House of Stone\u00a0won a 2019\u00a0Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award\u00a0in the \u201cfiction with a sense of place<\/em><\/strong>\u201d category.<\/p>\n

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        1. Laksmi Pamuntjak <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Born on the 22nd<\/sup> of December 1977, Laksmi who has one daughter of 22 years old is an\u00a0Indonesian\u00a0poet, essayist, and award-winning\u00a0novelist\u00a0and\u00a0food writer. She writes for numerous novels as well as local and international publications including\u00a0opinion articles\u00a0for\u00a0the Guardian.<\/p>\n

          A Minangkabau\u00a0descent from\u00a0Sungai Puar,\u00a0West Sumatra, her grand father was Kasoema Sutan Pamuntjak, an editor of\u00a0Balai Pustaka\u00a0and founder of CV Djambatan, a\u00a0publishing company. \u00a0Laksmi who writes in\u00a0Indonesian\u00a0and\u00a0English, is the author of two collections of\u00a0poetry; a collection of poetry and\u00a0prose; a\u00a0treatise\u00a0on the relationship between man and violence based on the\u00a0Iliad; a collection of\u00a0short stories\u00a0based on paintings; four editions of the award-winning\u00a0The Jakarta Good Food Guide, \u00a0two translations of the works of leading Indonesian poet and essayist\u00a0Goenawan Mohamad, and two best-selling\u00a0novels.<\/p>\n

          Laksmi’s first novel\u00a0Amba,\u00a0a national bestseller, was the winner of the Literaturpreis 2016. It is the only German literary prize awarded to women authors from\u00a0Asia,\u00a0Africa,\u00a0Latin America, the\u00a0Caribbean, and the\u00a0Arab World. The novel is a modern take on\u00a0The Mahabharata,set against the backdrop of the\u00a0Indonesian mass killings of 1965\u00a0and the\u00a0Buru\u00a0penal colony.<\/p>\n

          The novel has been translated into English, German and Dutch. The US edition of the English translation,\u00a0The Question of Red, was published in July 2016. The English translation of her second novel,\u00a0\u2018Aruna dan Lidahnya\u2019 is due for publication in the United States in early 2017. A movie adaptation based on the book is announced to star Indonesian actress\u00a0Dian Sastrowardoyo. In August 2015, the German translation of\u00a0\u2018Amba\u2019,\u00a0\u2018Alle Farben Rot\u2019,\u00a0was Number 1 on the Weltempfaenger \u00a0list for the best international work of\u00a0fiction\u00a0translated into\u00a0German. It has also appeared on the\u00a0Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’s list of 8 Most Important Novels of the\u00a0Frankfurt Book Fair\u00a02015, De Bild’s\u00a0Top 10 Books of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015, and the ORF Kultur (Austria)’s Top 10 List for November 2015. In 2012, Laksmi, who is co-founder of the bilingual Aksara Bookstore<\/strong>, was selected as the Indonesian representative at the Poetry Parnassus\/Cultural Olympics,\u00a0the largest poetry festival in the\u00a0UK,[citation needed]\u00a0held in conjunction with the\u00a0London Olympics. Her prose and poetry have been published in many international journals, including the preface to\u00a0\u2018Not a Muse: A World Poetry Anthology\u2019\u00a0(2008).<\/p>\n

          Between 2009 and 2011, Laksmi was jury member of the\u00a0Prince Claus Awards based in\u00a0Amsterdam. In 2016, Laksmi received\u00a0LiBeraturpreis, a German literary award sponsored by the Frankfurt Book Fair, for her novel\u00a0Amba.<\/p>\n

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          1. Rayya Makarim<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Rayya Makarim is a famous Indonesian screenwriter and producer. Her films include\u00a0Pasir Berbisik\u00a0(2001),\u00a0Rumah Ketujuh\u00a0(2003),\u00a0Banyu Biru\u00a0(2005),\u00a0Jermal\u00a0(2009),\u00a0Buffalo Boys\u00a0(2018), and the series\u00a0Grisse\u00a0produced by HBO Asia (2018). Her latest script for\u00a027 Steps of May\u00a0(2018) won Skenario Pilihan Tempo at Tempo Film Festival 2018.<\/p>\n

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            Quite n interesting list of great authors and writers, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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