Making Malaysia’s literary capital work

By Photography courtesy of Penang Global Tourism, Julia Tan

January 2015 FEATURE
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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...

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Photography courtesy of Penang Global Tourism

Julia Tan

is a former editor of Penang Monthly. She remembers her time with the magazine with great fondness.

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