Tag Archives: Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

Sunrise, Sanur Beach, pre-festival

Writers dinner hosted by the Fairmont Hotel, Sanur

Antoine Cassar (Passaport Project) samples kopi luwak en route to Ubud

Festival opening ceremony, Ubud Palace

With Avi Sirlin, Jane Maryam and Kate Evans at Casa Luna

My first session, Why Write?, with Rebecca Harkins-Cross, Okky Madasari, Mireille Juchau and Nam Le

My second session, Make History, with Isa Kamari, Avi Sirlin and Tory Loudon

Long Table Dinner event, Honeymoon Guesthouse

Mpho Tutu, keynote address: ‘Without forgiveness, peace cannot fly.’

Sofie Laguna: ‘The more innocence you bring to a voice, the more you expose the world’s corruption.’

Chigozie Obioma, on The Fishermen: ‘The brothers are a metaphor for the foundational myth of Nigeria; the madman the seed of destruction.’

Porochista Khakpour: ‘We throw the ball and the reader has to catch it.’

Anuradha Roy: ‘I think very hard about endings, even at the start of a book.’

Dorothy Tse: ‘I teach [my creative writing students] to be better readers.’

Nam Le: ‘Writing anything involving human beings with some care and some rigour is inevitably a political act.’

Finegan Kruckemeyer: ‘I try to write open, allegorical works that children can read into what they want.’

Michael Chabon: ‘You need to acknowledge what’s going on under the surface of anything in life.’

Drusilla Modjeska: Incarcerating people (on Manus) is ‘destabilising for the spirit of the ground.’

This guy had nothing to say.

Closing night, Blanco Renaissance Museum, Ubud

Farewell brunch for writers, Casa Luna