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Market Focus 17,000 Islands of Imagination The London Book Fair 2019 Contact: The National Organising Committee for Indonesia as Market Focus Country at the London Book Fair 2019 Fiction Email: [email protected] www.islandsofimagination.id CATALOGUE Fiction CATALOGUE Foreword Laura Bangun Prinsloo Executive Chair of Indonesian National Organising Committee Celebrating Diversity Indonesia is full of diversity. We have various cultures, ethnicities, languages and religions. From our diversity, comes great richness and strength. This diversity and our multicultural background is reflected in our books—fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, comics—and cross-media products. “Diversity” is a term that can have multiple interpretations, but at its core, it’s all about creating “variety”. Our publishers focus on diversity through ensuring that we offer a variety of perspectives to match a great variety of readers on a global level. Diversity from a global perspective means, readers from various parts of the world want content published that is relevant to them. The future of the publishing industry depends on how prepared they are to serve readers in these emerging economies. Between increased cultural awareness and technological growth, we are able to be more connected than ever before. In the publishing world, we play a key role in weaving threads that hold together the global community by helping to fasten different cultures around the world closer to one another. Just like the future of our world, the future of our industry depends on diversity and intercultural cooperation. Generally speaking, Indonesian publishers have never stopped innovating and deepening their endeavours as they seek to implement the go-global strategy, thereby bringing about quite a few new highlights in books, digital innovations and other cross-media platforms such as films, animations and games. Through this Market Focus Programme at the London Book Fair 2019, Indonesian publishers seek more opportunities and open themselves to cooperate with the world publishing society and to create mutual benefits. J A.S. LAKSANA 1 The Beard Peed on the Guy in the Poster [ Si Janggut Mengencingi Herucakra ] Fiction Catalogue Fiction Catalogue Laksana will amaze readers with his mastery of storytelling techniques which always been his signature as an author. Struggling against the world, others, and also against themselves, the characters in these twelve satirical stories subtly demonstrate the most hapless aspects of human relations. Complex without being pretentious, The Beard Peed on the Guy in the Poster will further cement the author’s stature in the Asian literary scene. “His stories always contain some critical positions to the form of the story itself...” —Tempo Magazine “It feels that we enter an oral narrative, but we also are immediately aware of Laksana’s skill in creating a writerly narrative. His sentences are neatly constructed; they are multi layered and based on precise judgements.” —Nirwan Dewanto, poet and critic A.S. Laksana writes fiction and nonfiction and gives creative writing courses. His two previous books of stories, published in 2004 and 2013, were hailed by Tempo magazine as the best literary works of the respective years. Category Short Stories Dimension 14 x 20.3 cm Phone +628118204386 Language Indonesian ISBN 9789791260497 +6285692892030 Copyrights World rights Publisher Marjin Kiri, 2016 E-mail [email protected], Page viii + 133 pages [email protected] Website www.marjinkiri.com 2 A.S. LAKSANA ABIDAH EL KHALIEQY 3 The Tall Man: Geni Jora Puppy Love and [ Geni Jora ] Ghosts [ Murjangkung: Cinta yang Dungu dan Hantu-hantu ] Fiction Catalogue Fiction Catalogue This is a collection of twenty short stories in various exciting themes such as Abidah uses her rich personal story—a story that begins in a pesantren, a traditional religious historical figures, love, family life, and ghost mysteries by one of the best living boarding-school on Java, to faraway places in the Middle East—to empower her rebellion Indonesian prose writers. against her gender in this enchanting story of love and self-discovery. Abidah’s poetic tone in her prose writing makes her one of Indonesia’s best novelists. Geni Jora is saturated with The Tall Man, the nickname of the commander of an army, is an extreme parody the Muslim women’s litigations against the accepted gender norms within their community: of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the seventeenth-century governor-general of the Dutch discrimination in education against women, polygamy, lesbianism, male dominations, spousal colonialists in Indonesia and the founder of Batavia (now Jakarta). The stories abuse, and woman sexuality. The essence of this resistance in this book is represented by a contain elements of black humor and satire, conveying a robust socio-political Muslim Feminist named Kejora. commentary in a light, casual manner. “Her novels can be considered as the crown achievement of Islamic literature.” —Republika “Using her vast and intimate knowledge of the Middle East, this author presented Jora as the voice of resistance against patriarchal values. Her cynical hyperbolic style actually reinforced her theme. This is a resounding call for gender equality.” —The Jury for Jakarta Art Council’s Writing Competition. Abidah El Khalieqy was born in 1965 in Jombang, East Java. She graduated from an all-girls Persatuan Islam boarding school in Pasuruan and Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta. She began to write in her youth and has had a productive career, publishing nine novels, most recently Mimpi Anak Pulau (An Island Child’s A.S. Laksana (1968) writes fiction and nonfiction works and provides creative writing courses. His Dream, 2013); two short story collections; and the poetry collection Ibuku Laut Berkobar (My Mother Is the Shining two collections of stories were hailed by Tempo magazine as the best literary work of the year in Sea, 1997). Her 2001 novel Perempuan Berkalung Sorban (The Woman in the Turban) was adapted for the screen 2004 and 2013. and won several awards. Category Short Stories Dimension 13 x 20 cm Phone +622178883030 Category Novel Dimension 20 x 13.5 cm Phone +62227834310 Language Indonesian ISBN 9797806448 E-mail [email protected] Language Indonesian ISBN 9789793269856 E-mail [email protected] Copyrights Rights available Publisher Gagas Media Website www.gagasmedia.net Copyrights Available Publisher Qanita/PT Mizan Pustaka, Website www.mizanpublishing.com Page Viii + 116 pages Page 272 pages 2009 English translation published by Lontar. 4 ACEP ZAMZAM NOOR ACHDIAT K. MIHARDJA 5 Like Death The Atheist Aproaching & [ Atheis ] Other Poems [ Seperti Ajal yang Datang Tanpa Bicara dan Puisi Lainnya ] Fiction Catalogue Fiction Catalogue The English and German translations of this book were subsidized by the The English translation of this book was subsidized by the Indonesian Translation Indonesian Translation Funding Program Funding Program Acep Zamzam Noor’s poems wrap silence around images of death and failure. First published in 1949, this legendary novel tells the story of Hasan’s spiritual and Beauty and, of course, life itself is transitory. They are things that quickly pass, intellectual crisis. He was raised to be a devout Muslim but comes to doubt his faith reminds Noor. The reader, when trying to uncover the meaning of the poet’s surreal after he got involved with a group of modern young people. scenes, learns much about the purpose of his own existence. Upon the publication of this novel, religious thinkers, Marxist-Leninists, and anarchists criticized the novel; but it was a hit among literary figures and the general public. The novel, considered to be a masterpiece of modern Indonesian literature, is listed among UNESCO’s Collection of Representative Literary Works. Achdiat Karta Mihardja (1911-2010) was an author and journalist with a broad spectrum of intellectual tastes. He studied Western philosophy and in 1950 was one of the founders of LEKRA (Lembaga Kebudayaan Rakyat), a literary and social movement associated with the Indonesian Acep Zamzam Noor was born in Tasikmalaya, West Java, and studied art at university. He is a faithful Communist Party. In 1961, with an advanced degree in adult education, he became the professor of bearer of what is known as “silent songs” whose language is notably distinct from the bureaucratized Indonesian Literature and Language at Australian National University in Canberra where he lived to language of the mass media but also markedly different from poets whose poems are filled with the remarkably old age of ninety-nine. He was honored by the Indonesian government several times socio-political diatribe. for his service to Indonesian literature. Category Poetry Page Xii + 82 pages Publisher The Lontar Foundation, 2015 Category Novel Dimension 14 x 21.5 cm Phone +62215756880 Language Indonesian-English- Dimension 11 x 20 cm Phone +62215746880 Language English ISBN 9786029144161 E-mail [email protected] German ISBN 9786029144543 E-mail [email protected] Copyrights English only Publisher The Lontar Foundation, 2015 Website www.lontar.org Copyrights English and other (English Edition) Website www.lontar.org Page 210 languages from English. 9786029144802 (German Edition) 6 AFRIZAL MALNA AHMAD FUADI 7 Anxiety Myths The Land of 5 [ Mitos-Mitos Kecemasan ] Towers [ Negeri Lima Menara ] Fiction Catalogue Fiction Catalogue In a writing career that has spanned for more than thirty years, Afrizal Malna