Laksmi Pamuntjak akan meluncurkan buku barunya: "The Jakarta Good Food Guide 2008/2009". Selain menampilkan restoran-restoran berkelas dengan rasa juara, buku tersebut juga akan mengulas tentang maraknya jajanan kaki lima (food vendors) khas Jakarta.
Acara peluncuran buku baru tentang kuiliner tersebut akan berlangsung di Aksara Bookstore Kemang pada hari Kamis, 26 Maret 2008 mendatang. Menurut Laksmi, acara ini akan jadi bagian dari Visit Indonesia Year 2008 dan menurut rencana akan dibuka oleh Dr. Sapta Nirwandar dari Kementerian Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata RI. Sebagai catatan, Laksmi adalah salah satu pendiri toko buku Aksara. _______________________________________________________ Comments: 2002 Editorial Merit Winner of HOW Magazine USA's 10th International Graphic Design Award Listed in the Indonesian collection of world class publications of the National Library of Australia "At last, the benchmark for good dining in Jakarta is established through straightforward writing and honest critiques." William Wongso, restaurateur, gastronome "What impresses most in the JGFG (pardon the Orba-esque acronym) is its all-around quality: the clean, elegant design by Le Bo Ye; the thoughtful separation of categories; the concise, catchy writing; and most of all, the informative, critical, knowledgeable reviews . the prose is consistently playful, insightful, polished and never clichéd." Djakarta! - City Life Magazine "Laksmi's diligence in putting together this book deserves much praise ." Gatra "Governor of Good Eating in Jakarta!" Bondan Winarno, food critic, gourmet and television personality, for Tempo "This is a delicious read and must-have for long-time residents of the city . Jakarta foodies . have seen nothing like it before." The Jakarta Post About the Author Laksmi Pamuntjak has since 1994 written columns and articles on politics, film, food, classical music and literature for Tempo Magazine and elsewhere. She translated and edited Goenawan Mohamad: Selected Poems, published Jakarta Good Food Guide-an annually updated new take on food writing-and co-founded Aksara, a bilingual bookstore in Jakarta. Her first collection of poetry, Ellipsis, appeared on The Herald UK 2005 Books of the Year list, making her the first, as The Jakarta Post wrote, ".(Indonesian) whose book has been mentioned as an international book of the year." A treatise on violence and the Iliad entitled Perang, Langit dan Dua Perempuan (War, Heaven, and Two Women) came out in 2006, along with her first collection of short stories, The Diary of R.S.: Musings on Art, which is now being translated into French and Indonesian. The Anagram, her second poetry collection, was released in March 2007. In September of the same year, she released her translation of Goenawan Mohamad's book of aphorisms under the title On God and Other Unfinished Things. Laksmi is currently working on The Blue Widow, a novella set in Buru Island, the site of a large tropical gulag during the Suharto administration (1965-1998), where alleged communists and Communist Party sympathizers were detained for more than a decade without being formally charged or tried in court. www.laksmipamuntjak.com
