President Emmanuel Macron has awarded the country's top honor to the controversial top-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq, a scourge of the establishment for his bitter denunciations of modern France.

The Jakarta Post spoke to Laila Lalami on The Other Americans, American society and the Iraq War.

On the eve of Kartini Day, celebrated every April 21, an education portal has released a digital comic available for the general public to learn about the figure they might only know from standard textbooks. 

Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" shot to the top of the Amazon bestseller list Tuesday as firefighters damped down the embers of the blaze which ravaged the ancient cathedral.

Game Of Thrones has ruined Game Of Thrones for me. More specifically, the Game Of Thrones TV series has spoilt George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire for me.

There is no shortage of topics out there for any aspiring writer to explore. But what if the one you’d like to write about is so niche no mainstream publisher would pick it up?

Here’s a chance for foreigners bedazzled by this archipelago of astonishments to better their knowledge of its history and cultures – not through texts hammered by pedestrian academics clumsy at storytelling, but through fiction.

The end of Soeharto's rule "triggered political changes" in Indonesia, according to Elaine Pearson, the Australian director of Human Rights Watch.

Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, who scooped last year's Booker International Prize for fiction, was named Tuesday among five female nominees for this year's prestigious literary award.

Lisa Harding jokes that she is going to choose a "nice cheery subject" for her next book before admitting that it is actually about children coping with alcoholic parents.

The epic tale of Japan's first foreign-born samurai is soon to hit bookshelves, giving readers a comprehensive picture of a man who witnessed great moments of history but whose story has largely been overlooked in official accounts.

Digital anthropologist, ethnographer and author Crystal Abidin is well-known for her research on influencers and internet celebrities, but she has no plan to become one.

Three dispensers which print free short stories will be installed around London's Canary Wharf this week.

Decades after Kurt Cobain's guttural rasp seduced Generation X from its collective bedroom and into the post-punk clubs of 1990s Seattle, the late Nirvana frontman remains a talisman for the young and disaffected the world over.

A Scottish "Holocaust heroine" and quiet champion of educating girls helped save many Jews in Hungary before dying herself in a Nazi concentration camp.

The Indonesian team is displaying more than 150 book titles in various categories such as folktales, fantasy, religion, language and character building.

A newly launched book, penned by First Marshal Andi Wijaya and his team, reveals the history of Abdulrachman Saleh Air Force Base in Malang, East Java, and its connection with an old Javanese kingdom.

Catholic priests in the northern Polish city of Koszalin burned books they say are sacrilegious this weekend, including tomes from British author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of fantasy novels.

To encourage the children to read, no one is allowed to use their phone at the place.

Indian writer and dancer Tishani Doshi believes literature and arts can help people transform challenging life situations into life-affirming aesthetic expression.

From famous singer to acclaimed writer: Dewi “Dee” Lestari talks about her experience of crossing boundaries and genres.

The literary agent is the missing link in the Indonesian publishing industry, where writers deal directly with publishers instead of having someone else doing the job for them.

Singing and laughter briefly drown out the roar of cars under a Jakarta flyover, where an unlikely library for kids is thriving despite choking fumes -- and opposition from menacing gangsters.

Prominent historian of Southeast Asia, Anthony Reid, uses the opportunity to look at the past creatively – through a somewhat romanticized lens – in his first novel.

The novel shares a glimpse into the lives of student activists in the 1990s, the movement of which later triggered the beginning of the Reform Era in 1998 and resignation of then-president Soeharto.

The Gusdurians – the young followers of Indonesia’s fourth President, the late Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid – have offered his thinking to a wider audience by translating 13 of his essays into English and published them in a book.

Seno Gumira Ajidarma, took the opportunity to speak about the important role literature can play when a country goes through trying times during the Author of the Day program at this year’s London Book Fair.

American publishing behemoth HarperCollins has given the green light to "an unconventional biography" of late designer and CHANEL creative director Karl Lagerfeld, who died on February 19.

Indonesia closes its participation at the 2019 London Book Fair with 23 rights sold on the spot. Various publishers from 12 countries have expressed interests for 408 book titles.

“The stories are usually wildly unhistorical but also dramatic, wacky, poignant, funny, kitschy, uplifting, invariably fantastic yet often revelatory and profoundly true. Few of them are single-track narratives.”