Writers Unlimited — Winternachten 2012 The Hague
Writers Unlimited — Winternachten 2012 The Hague Keep on Dreaming! A wink at the dreamers, the believers in utopias, the pursuers of ideals, that is the theme of the Writers Unlimited Winternachten Festival 2012. Writers and thinkers from the Netherlands…
Meet These Writers by Rouwen Lin
AFTER three months of preparation and with five writers now on board, the latest addition to Penang’s arts and culture calendar is set to take off this weekend. The two-day George Town Literary Festival started with a vision: when Penang…
Universal Search by Daphne Lee
At some point in everyone’s lives, we need to know where we came from. WHAT stands out for me when I think of Bernice Chauly’s book, Growing Up With Ghosts – A Memoir, is the story of her father’s death….
Well Lit: A fiery, furious love by Umapagan Ampikaipakan
MEMOIRS are, by definition, works in progress. They should, for all intents and purposes, take a lifetime to write. They should communicate change. They should symbolise growth. They should be reflective. In an age where everyone is looking for their…
Exorcising her past
IT HAS taken 23 years for author, poet, actress and filmmaker Bernice Chauly (right) to complete her memoir, Growing Up with Ghosts. It’s the story of her parents and her ancestors. Her mother, a Chinese, and her father, a Punjabi,…
Writing the Truth — Fact or Fiction
[audio http://www.dotdotdot.my/assets/files/ddd17062011_Writingthetruth-factorfiction.mp3] We were fortunate to have four touring writers from the Netherlands,Turkey, Egypt and the US together with five Malaysian writers during the recent Writers Unlimited TourKL/Makassar 2011. Umapagan Ampikaipagan moderated a panel discussion during the tour. He walks…
Writers Unlimited – Writers Tour to Indonesia and Malaysia
Connecting writers with each other and with audiences, across borders of cultures and countries. That is the mission of Writers Unlimited (formerly known as Winternachten), the international literature festival. In an annual event in The Hague, and in tours across…
Truth in fiction by Daphne Lee
A recent gathering of authors elicits descriptions like ‘inspiring’ and ‘entertaining’. IT’S been several years since Kuala Lumpur played host to a literary festival, so the city’s book lovers were understandably excited when Malaysian writer and poet Bernice Chauly announced…
Creatures
[vimeo 16383743] A part of HerStory film project, Creatures tells the story of a young woman who yearns for her lover through a journey of prose and metaphor, and explores how the Greek notions of love still apply today. Directed…
Winternachten Antilles/Suriname 2010: “A sense of belonging”
‘A sense of belonging’, was the theme of a combined writers’ tour by Winternachten to the Dutch Carribean and Suriname. For two weeks, from 13 to 24 April 2010, writers Bas Heijne (Netherlands), Yasmine Allas (Netherlands/Somalia), Bernice Chauly (Malaysia) and…