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The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival will be held on 25 until 30 September in Ubud, the place where's the culture and mixed artists were gather. Sponsored by Saraswati Foundation for the Arts was started in 2004 in order to provide a vessel for Indonesia writers to share their opinion and ideas with their writer counterparts around the world.
Initially, The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival was established to tackle the effect of Bali Bombing the first October 12, 2002 and to the world to be aware of the intellectual currents happened in Bali and Indonesia.
Credited by the Conde Nast Traveler as one of the world's great book event in 2006 and hailed by the Harper's Bazaar as “Among the top six literary festivals in the world”.
The 2007 Festival themes is Sekala Niskala or The Seen and Unseen and will live up to this reputation with six days of rousing discussions, creative workshops, book launches, luscious literary lunches and dinners, a free children’s program plus poetry, theater, film, music and dance —an exhilarating program in one of the world’s most beautiful settings.
Featuring over 80 writers from 16 different countries, including the winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize, Kiran Desai; the author of The Great Indian Novel, Shashi Tharoor; award-winning Australian author Richard Flanagan; forensic anthropologist and best-selling crime writer, Kathy Reichs; and exciting young Singaporean poet and counter-tenor, Cyril Wong.
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