indonesian profiles in leipzig book fairs 2015

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Chef Herman has been working as sous-chef for William Wongso, the Indonesian culinary guru, for more than 10 years. He has participated in many Indonesian food promotions abroad, as well as catering for many state dinners, including for Hil-lary Clinton. Herman debuted internation-ally at Indonesian food festivals at 5-star hotels, and has cooked at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park London, Lotte Hotel Korea, Fairmont Hotel Beijing, Concorde Hotel Singapore, The Grand Westin Ho-tel Berlin, King’s Hotel Perth, Ritz Carlton Shanghai, and the Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel in Mexico. He also participated at ITB Berlin, the World’s leading travel fair in 2011 and 2012. In 2011, he won sec-ond runner up at the Korean Food Festival Competition.

In 2014, Chef Herman was invited to teach Indonesian cooking at the Mundial Gastronomia Mexicana in 2014. He also joined Indonesia’s Food Diplomacy team for promoting 30 Indonesian Traditional Culinary Icon Dishes at prestigious culi-nary institutes in the United States, which was supported by the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy.

Suherman, Chef


Novelist Ahmad Tohari was born in Banyu-mas, Central Java on June 13, 1948.Novelist Ahmad Tohari is best known for his evocative descriptions of village life. He attended the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa in 1990, and went on to receive the Southeast Asian Writers Award in 1995. He is best known for Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk (The Dancing Girl of Paruk Village), the first novel in a trilogy used as the basis for the film, Sang Penari (The Dancer). This novel has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, German, and English. In 2007, he received the Rancage Award for his work in the Banyumas language/dia-lect of Java.

Ahmad Tohari


From the time he was a child, Beng Rahad-ian has had an interest in comics and ani-mation. During his teen years, he interned at Studio Animik, Bandung, West Java, before beginning his studies in Design and Visual Communication at ISI in Yog-yakarta in 1995. He actively promotes the development of comics in Indonesia as a comic artist, editor and publisher of comic books. He has also founded a community of comics, which works with Indonesian government ministries and foreign cultur-al centers to promote the advancement of Indonesian comics.

He produced the first three photo copy editions of his debut comic titled Tehjahe with a friend. In 2001, he won a comic competition about Yogyakarta with his comic book Selamat Pagi Urbaz. At that time, he frequently visited the homes of senior comic artists like Teguh Santosa, RA Kosasih, to discuss the art of comic mak-ing.

Beng Rahadian, Comic Artist


Berthold Damshäuser teaches Indonesian language and literature at the University of Bonn. He is a chief editor of Orientierun-gen, a journal on Asian cultures, translator of Indonesian poetry into German, as well as German poetry into Indonesian, editor of Seri Puisi Jerman (a serial of German poetry in Indonesian translation, together with Agus R. Sarjono), as well as of anthol-ogies of Indonesian and German poetry. A member of the National Committee Indo-nesia, he is Guest of Honor of the Frank-furt Bookfair 2015

Berthold Damshäuser


The illustration styles of Indonesia’s chil-dren’s book illustrators of widely varied – ranging from the traditional watercolor and pencil to the digital. Even digital il-lustration styles vary, with specific char-acteristic relating to depth and solidness of color and the approach to drawing ob-jects. A number of illustrators have taken to adapting the manga style. Over the last three years, however the domination of manga in the illustration of children’s books has begun to wane.

A new era has emerged in which the origi-nality of children’s book and other literary illustrations in Indonesia is being ques-tioned. The results of a number of discus-sions in various forums indicate that the one core characteristic of Indonesian illus-tration is its diversity originating from the country’s rich and varied ethnic cultures. Each of these ethnic entities has its own realm of imagination that is distinct from those of the others. In this context, when Indonesian illustrators make something perceived as “not at all Indonesian” they give the impression of not loving the lo-cal wisdom of the country’s widely varied populous.

EVAN RADITYA PRATOMO, Children’s Books Illustrator


Goenawan Soesatyo Muhamad, is the full name of this journalist, essayist and poet, who is best known as GM. He was born in Batang, Central Java onJuly 29, 1941. He founded Tempo magazine, one of the most influential publications in Indonesia, which was banned twice during the Soe-harto regime era for its critical stance. He is well known for his ‘Catatan Pinggir’ col-umn in theweekly editions of Tempo mag-azine. This succinct writings have been gathered into a series of 10 books, start-ing withCatatan Pinggir 1 through to Cata-tan Pinggir 10. A man of culture, GM was among the founders of Lontar Foundation, Komunitias Utan Kayu and Salihara. GM also participated in the Nieman Fellow program at Harvard University. GM has been honored for his work in journalism with the CPJ International Press Freedom Award (1998), the International Editor of The Year award from World Press maga-zine (1999), the Wertheim Award (2005), and the Dan David Prize Award (2006).

Goenawan Mohamad, journalist, essayist, poet


Born in Manado, on September 19, 1966, graduated from the SyariahDepartment of the Islamic State University (Univer-sitas Islam Negeri, UIN) in Jakarta. He is the founder and director of Lentera Bas-ritama (2000) and Director of Serambi Publishing(2010-2014), which publishes book about contemporary Islam. After be-ing selected into the management of IKAPI DKI, he worked his way into the position of General Secretary of the IKAPI Central Of-fice (2010-2015). Currently, he is active on the committee concerned with preparations for Indone-sia’s attendance of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 as Respected Guest. Since 2014, he has served as head of the Translation Com-mittee.

Husni Syawie, Indonesian Publishing Figure


Iwan Gunawan is an alumni of the Jakarta Art Institute (IKJ) Visual Communication and Design Department, and has lectured there since 1993. At this time he is teach-ing conceptual and sequential art, and illustration. He also teaches visual Narra-tion in the IKJ Master program. Currently he holds the position of director of the Ur-ban Art and Cultural Industry Program at the IKJ Graduate School.

Besides his educational activities, Iwan also works as an illustrator and graphic de-signers. Iwan has won several honours for his illustration work, including IKAPI Best Children’s Book Illustrator for his work titled “Perang Yang Disesali” (1992) and for Best Mascot Design for “Mat Bondol”, which he created for the National Sports Week (1996). In 2006, Iwan founded Se-quen, an Indonesian comic magazine, as well as www.komikindonesia.com.

Iwan has participated as a speaker, judge and director for various events, includ-ing the Indonesian Comic Exhibition, in collaboration with Pengki and the British Council, in 2001 and 2004; and the solo exhibtion “Retro Man“ by Indonesian comic artist Mansur Daman (2012) at Ben-tara Budaya,in cooperation with the Comic Community of Indonesia; as well as acting as curator for the joint exhibition by Pri-yanto S. And S. Prinka titled “Politik Gam-bar Dua Empu” (2014), in coolaboration with DKV-IKJ at Taman Ismail Marzuki.

Iwan Gunawan


John H. McGlynn first came to Indonesia in 1976 as a college student and enrolled at the University of Indonesia where he stud-ied Indonesian language and literature. In 1978 he returned to the United States and obtained a Masters degree in the field of Indonesian language and literature from the Department of Southeast Asian Stud-ies at the University of Michigan, Ann Ar-bor. In 1987, following years of working as a translator and interpreter, he and four Indonesian writers—Sapardi Djoko Damono, Goenawan Mohamad, Subagia Sastrowardoyo, and Umar Kayam—estab-lished the Lontar Foundation which, 28 years later, continues to be the only or-ganization in the world whose sole focus is the translation of Indonesian literature. The Foundation has produced close to 500 titles containing translations of liter-ary work by more than 500 authors. John has also produced 24 documentary films on Indonesian writers and 30 films on In-donesian oral traditions.

John H. McGlynn, Translator-Publisher


After training as a publishing manager, Juergen Boos studied business manage-ment at Mannheim University. He worked for several years as sales director for Dro-emerscheVerlagsanstalt, Carl HanserVer-lag, and Springer Verlag in Berlin, where he went on to become director of inter-national sales. In 1997, he moved to Ver-lag Wiley-VCH in Weinheim as executive director of marketing, sales and distribu-tion. He has been director of the Frankfurt Book Fair since April 2005.

Jürgen BoosCEO Frankfurt Book Fair


Laksmi Pamuntjak was born in Jakarta, December 22, 1971. Among her published works are two poetry collections: Ellip-sis (one of the Herald UK Selected Books for 2005); The Anagram (2007); and the philosophical analysis of The Iliad, which was published as Perang, Langit dan Dua Perempuan (2006); as well as short fiction inspired by a number of paintings under the title of The Diary of R.S.: Musings on Art (2006); along with a series of four inde-pendent volumes published as The Jakarta Good Food Guide.

Laksmi Pamuntjak’s essays, poetry and short stories have been published in vari-ous international literary journals and anthologies, including The World Record and the introduction for Not a Muse: In-ternational Anthology of Women’s Poetry (2007). At this time Laksmi is Indonesia Edi-tor for Margins, the cultural journal for the Asian-American Writers’ Workshop based in New York.

Laksmi Pamuntjak


Prof. Dr. Martina Heinschke. A scholar of Indonesian languages and literature. She is an Associate Lecturer at Hamburg Uni-versity, Department of Southeast Asian Studies. She graduated in 1991 with a doctoral thesis on Angkatan 45. Litera-turkonzeptionen im gesellschaftspolitisch-en Kontext. Zur Funktionsbestimmung der Literatur im postkolonialen Indonesien (Angkatan 45. Literary concepts and their socio-political context in postcolonial In-donesia). Her publications mainly concern modern literature in independent Indone-sia (Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Sitor Situmo-rang, Ayu Utami) and include several en-tries to Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon.

Prof. Dr. Martina Heinschke


Milena Karas was born in Koeln in 1982, and studied at Schauspiel-Studio Frese Hamburg. Since gradutaing in 2006, her acting skills have been seen in a large number of German television produc-tions, including some by Schauspiel-Studio Frese Hamburg. On the big screen she has appeared in the comedy “DasHochzeits-video“, directed by SönkeWortmann.Besides that, Milena Karas has worked as a narrator, a voice over artist, as well as a reader for audio books, including literay works.

Milena Karas


Nirwan Dewanto is a poet, essayist, literary editor, and art curator. His poetry books, Jantung Lebah Ratu (2008) andBuli-Buli Lima Kaki (2010), won the Hadiah Sastra Khatulistiwa awards for those years. He also writes lyrics for pop music, jazz and keroncong. His poetry has been translated into a number of foreign languages. He manages the Lembar Sastra column “Lem-bar Sastra”, which features the works of new writers, for Koran Temponewspaper’s Sunday edition. His essays deal with liter-ary works and issues relating to literature, art performances, visual art, and culture in general. He helped found and assists in managing Komunitas Salihara, a private sector art center in South Jakarta. For the past several years, he has been active as curator for visual art exhibitions, includ-ing exhibitions featuring the works of S. Teddy Darmawan, Dipo Andy, Nasirun and Hanafi. As an author, he has participated in a number of residence programs, in-cluding the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, the House of Lit-erature in Paros (Greece), and the Univer-sity of Wisconsin—Madison. A collection of his poems translated into English will soon be published under the title The Ori-gin of Happiness(Asal-Usul Kebahagiaan).

NIRWAN DEWANTO, poet and essayist


PettyPandean Elliott’s fascination for food and cookery goes back over 13 years when she began teaching modern Indonesian cooking classes for her friends and neigh-bours in UK. Petty participated in the BBC Masterchef competition in 2001. In Jakarta she has been hosting classes and cooking demonstrations, writing regular columns and features about food in magazines and newspapers for the past 10 years. Her first cookbook “Papaya Flower,” Manadonese Cuisine, Provincial Indonesian Food was published in 2009 and a second, Contem-porary Indonesian Food in January 2012.

Petty was a contributer to the Miele Guide, a restaurant guide in Asia from 2008 to 2013. She writes for Now Jakarta magazine and her weekly food column appears every Saturday in the Jakarta Globe newspaper.

Collaborating with some leading establish-ments, including five star hotels in Jakarta, Petty promotes modern Indonesian food paired with wine and promotes local cook-ing ingredients.

Petty Elliott, Chef


Putri is a multi-talented young chef with a growing portfolio in promoting Indone-sia cuisine internationally, including in the United States, Korea, Singapore and the Czech Republic. Putri was a finalist of the “Top Chef Indonesia” competition, Sea-son I, in 2013. She was part of the Indo-nesian Food Diplomacy team promoting Indonesian cuisine to culinary universities in the United States in 2014, including at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Napa Valley, International Culinary Center (ICC), Suffolk Country Community College Culinary Program (SCCCC) and College of Culinary Arts at Johnson & Wales Univer-sity, in New York, USA.

Always up for new challenges, Putri ac-cepted an invitation to teach an Indone-sian culinary program at Stratford Univer-sity, Virginia, USAin September-November 2014. Upon completion of the program, she led her team of culinary students from the University to cook Indonesian dinners for high profile diplomats, which were hosted by the Indonesian Embassy in Washington DC.

Putri Mumpuni, Chef


Sabine Müller works as a freelance trans-lator (Indonesian, English) and editor.She stuied ethonology, malailogy and sociol-ogy in Koeln, and completed a program for the Teaching of German as a Foreign language at Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf. Sabine lived in Indonesia for several years and studied for one year at Gadjah Mada University,Yogyakarta. She then taught German at Politeknik Cimahi, as well as working at the Goethe-Institut cultural centers in Bandung andJakarta. The focus of her translation work is Indo-nesian literature, poetry and contempo-rary drama. She is a member of the Association for German Literature Translators (Verband deutscher Literaturübersetzer, VDÜ). Along with a number of other German translators who are active in cultural mat-ters, she actgively motivates and supports the translation of Indonesian literature into German. Her journalistic writing deals with the themes of international cooperation, de-velopment politics, culture and intercul-tural communication. She also frequently translates written materials on these top-ics from English into German. Sabine cur-rently lives in Cologne.

Sabine Müller


Sapardi Djoko Damono was born in Solo, Central Jakarta, on March 20, 1940. He has been writing poetry since 1957, when he was still a high school student, but did not publish his first collection of poems, duka-Mu abadi, until 1969. He has also pub-lished a number of other books of poetry, including Mata Pisau, Akuarium, Perahu Kertas, Sihir Hujan, Hujan Bulan Juni, Ar-loji, Ayat-ayat Api, Mata Jendela, Ada Beri-ta Apa Hari Ini, Den Sastro, Kolam, Namaku Sita, and Sutradara Itu Menghapus Dialog Kita. Among his published volumes of fic-tion are: Pengarang Telah Mati, Pengarang Belum Mati, and Pengarang Tak Pernah Mati; which were then published in a col-lection titled Trilogi Soekram. Since 1978, Sapardi has also published a number of non-fiction books, including Novel Indone-sia Sebelum Perang, Sosiologi Sastra, Puisi Indonesia Sebelum Kemerdekaan, Drama Indonesia, Sastra Bandingan, Bilang Begini Maksudnya Begitu, Kebudayaan (Populer) (di Sekitar) Kita, and Alih Wahana. His po-etry has been translated into a number of languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Hindi, Malayalam, Portuguese, English, Dutch, German, Italy, Javanese and Balinese. In 1986, a number of his poems and essays were published in a Japanese language volume. From1998 through 2012, a number of his poems have been published in English language collections, such as Watercolor Poems, Suddenly the Night, and Before Dawn.

Sapardi Djoko Damono


Who does not know Sisca Soewitomo? This Culinary Pioneer of the Indonesian Archipelago has been active in the world of cooking from a young age. Most of her more than 120 recipe books have been best sellers.

Sisca Soewitomo was born in Surabaya, East Java on April 8, 1949. She studied baking at the China Baking School-Taiwan and the American Institute of Baking, Manhattan,Kansas, The United States. Sisca, whose full name is Sis Cartica Soe-witomo, is currently busy as a cooking show host on Indonesia television, and speaks at cooking demonstrations, as well as demostrating how to cook, throughout Indonesia. Besides that, she also serves as a food stylist for various food product commercials.

Sisca Soewitomo, Culinary Pioneer

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