Artist’s Residence Dilsberg

2024 from April to June, the Indonesian writer and literary translator Anton Kurnia from UNESCO City of Literature Jakarta has been our highly esteemed guest. He writes short stories, novels, essays and narrative nonfiction. Since 1998, his works have been published by various journals and websites in Indonesia and abroad. His short story collection “Insomnia” (2004) has been translated into English, Arabic and Spanish. He has published three collections of short stories, six collections of essays on literature and culture, and a novel. In addition, he wrote a travelogue about his travels to various countries, “Many Roads to Prague” (2022). His first novel “Majnun” (2022) is a love story mixed with historical and cultural elements. “Nostalgia: Peculiar Stories about Love and Death” (2023) is his latest collection of short stories. He also translated many literary works from English to Indonesian, including novels by Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell and Salman Rushdie, and had a long career as a book publishing executive. He is often invited to take part in international literary festivals and book events, including the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali (2009), ASEAN Literary Festival in Jakarta (2016), ASEAN Writers Symposium in Laos (2018), Jakarta International Literary Festival (2019), Invitation Program at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2019), and the First Forum of Asian Countries' Writers in Kazakhstan (2019). He was selected to take part in the Melbourne Virtual Writers Residency in 2022. Currently he also serves as Chair of the Literature Committee of the Jakarta Arts Council.

The Australian children's book author and illustrator Judith Rossell was the literature fellow of the Rhine-Neckar Cultural Foundation and the UNESCO City of Literature Heidelberg in 2020/2022. On 1 February 2020 she took up the three-month writer-in-residence at the Dilsberg Commandant's House. Due to the Covid-19-pandely she had to interrupt her residency and returned in spring 2022.

Author´s website: https://judithrossell.com/

The author and PhD astrophysicist Pippa Goldschmidt from Edinburgh was the first joint literature fellow of the Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis e.V. and Heidelberg UNESCO City of Literature. On February 1, 2018, she had begun a three-month residency at Kommandantenhaus Dilsberg. 

Author´s website: https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk/