Just returned from Atrium Plaza Senayan, as I mentioned before in the early post, I was nominated in Khatulistiwa Literary Awards 2008 in the category of “Talented Young Writer”, and the winner is..
Prose
Ayu Utami – Bilangan Fu
Poetry
Nirwan Dewanto – Jantung Lebah Ratu
Talented Young Writers
Wa Ode Wulan Ratna - Cari Aku di Canti
I’m naturally disappointed because I dont win this time, but it’s okay! Nobody could win competition all the time, there is always xyz factor in such competition, so I would like to congratulate the winners, hopefully this competition will encourage young writers across our nation to produce quality literature. 
Unfortunately, Ayu Utami and Nirwan Dewanto didn’t attend to the event, so they are represented by someone else.
Also, a photo taken from Atrium:
keep on trying vin!!
You have the talent. Just go for it.
cup cup muah, haha.
selamat .. walaupun gak menang..
I hug you with the power of a thousand suns! Chuu~
yeah, berikutnya akan lebih baik lagi, kali ini masuk nominasi, berikutnya juara
@Manggala
hahaha, makasih mang
@sari
makasih sar…
@farah
makasih ya
@atri
thanks tri!
@sherwin
amiiiin!
hey, have I told you there were people talking about your novel in Tembagapura when I was interning there? your writings are already someone’s favorite,, so it’s safe to say that winning a writing contest is sort of just like a bonus ^^ a bonus which you will get some other time as you keep up that fantabulous work of yours! chins up, Vin! a lot of people knows you got what it takes!
Don’t worry, Vin. Other opportunity will come. Keep on writing and joining the contest.
Wish you good luck for your coming book.
aduh, vin…
…jangan sedih ya.
g tau lo sangat amat berbakat.
masalah menang cuma tunggu waktunya aja.
huggies.
>:D<
tapi…yaaaah…ga jadi deh traktirannya. sniff sniff…T.T
whATEVer…
poko na mah mun urang balik, makan2 yuuuu….!!!
you are the best dude!
gue udah free hosting maniac nih hehee
click here
impressive! =)
Yang kedua pasti dapet,amin!!!! heheehe..
@ako rita
thanks for the encouraging words!
@yuri
makasih yaa
@verdinand
makasih ver
@yoan
wow, kok beda2 ya, gw kira cuma 300-an per hari
@mya
whoops, keep it secret
Unfortunately the major part of Indonesian literature is out of reach for me. I depend on translation. Like the two best selling books by Ayu Utami for instance. Her books and those of the late Pramoedya Anata Toer amongst others, are on my bookshelves. For different reasons I think they are fascinating writers.
I would like to add your book to them. I’m curious, because you must be an extra ordinary talented author to have your novel (?) published at a so young age. But I guess I have to wait a little longer.
As for the literary awards: it always is a kind of a gamble. Jean-
Marie Gustave Le Clézio won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008. Perhaps he deserved it, but most insiders think/thought Philip Roth should have won. I bet that, if you keep track, a lot of awards are waiting for you to collect them in the future.
@colson
thanks for the kind words Colson! I always think I’m a lucky person, because my first was published because It won 3rd place of Jakarta Arts Council Novel Competition, was recommended by some author, hadn’t other people helped me, I dont think it would have been published at all.
I’m very slowly translating my novel, but well, since I’m not native speaker, I think it will take forever D:, there are lot of prominent writers here on Indonesia such as Dewi Lestari with her poetic Supernova series, or E.S. Ito who set another standard by publishing Rahasia Meede (Het Geheim von Meede), one of the best novel I have read in decade, a story of hidden V.O.C. gold in Jakarta, I think that novel is more than worth to translate, its multicultural setting could bridge reader in Indonesia and Netherlands, I could rant forever about this, lol
anyway, thanks for showing your interest to read my book! I’m dreaming to enter english market someday though I’m sure it will be tough since I’m not native, well just wish me luck, this is actually the biggest dream in my life
[...] Incase you dont know Ayu Utami, she’s a famous feminist, novelist, writer and best known for writing Saman which breaks Taboo about sexuality in Indonesian literature. ever since she wrote Saman, there are a lot of woman writer who write about sexuality in our literature. She’s an influential figure in Indonesia, and last year, her novel Bilangan Fu won the Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2008. [...]