This podcast focuses on two novels by leading writers in the region, now published by Penguin Random House SEA: Indonesian author and journalist, Leila S.Chudori’s award-winning The Sea Speaks His Name (translated by John H McGlynn from Laut Bercerita) and Riverrun by pioneering writer and educator, Danton Remoto, from the Philippines. Both novels feature characters who face the peril of sweeping state violence during the years of Soeharto and Marcos, though their authors choose different routes to make fresh the horror of atrocity and the resilience of resistance. Join us to find out what drives these authors and in what ways to ‘speak of the unspeakable’… In conversation with Ann Lee, playwright and researcher.
Speakers: Leila S.Chudori, Danton Remoto, Ann Lee
