Making Malaysia’s literary capital work
By Photography courtesy of Penang Global Tourism, Julia Tan
January 2015 FEATURE
Organising a literary festival is no easy task, especially when you’ve only got five months to do it. But passion and determination drove one man and his team to pull it off – and very successfully.Umapagan Ampikaipakan is no stranger to organising festivals. Having directed Cooler Lumpur – South-East Asia’s first festival of ideas – for the past two years, he recently curated the fourth George Town Literary Festival (GTLF) held in November this year. Over the three-day festival, literary...
Photography courtesy of Penang Global Tourism
Julia Tan
went to primary and secondary school at Convent Pulau Tikus before continuing sixth form at St. Xavier’s Institution; any other school was out of the question. She misses the fried rice at the school canteen, and laments the passing of the wan tan mee lady.
