Intan Paramaditha
Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian author, scholar, and feminist activist. Her latest novel, Night of a Thousand Hells, translated by Stephen J. Epstein and Tiffany Tsao, is published by Europa Editions (US/UK, 2026) and Scribe (Australia, 2027). A Harvard Radcliffe Fellow and Civitella Ranieri Fellow, she is also the author of The Wandering (2020), longlisted for the Stella Prize and awarded the English PEN Translates Award, and the story collection Apple and Knife (2018), part of the Vintage Classics Weird Girls series. Her fiction has appeared in Italian, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, and Thai, with a French edition forthcoming. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University, Sydney. She co-founded Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan, a feminist collective advancing feminist thought from the Indonesian archipelago and the Global South.
A genre-defying feminist gothic novel blending Indonesian folklore, Islamic mysticism, horror, and political reckoning.
October 6 (US) | October 8 (UK), 2026
Europa Editions
2026, pp. 384, Paperback
ISBN: 9798889662129
Translated by Stephen Epstein, Tiffany Tsao
THE WANDERING
Harvill Secker, February 13, 2020
Translated by Stephen J. Epstein
The Wandering is a novel about the highs and lows of global nomadism, the politics and privileges of travel and desire, and the freedoms and limitations of the choices we make. It’s a reminder that borders are real, and a playful experiment that turns the traditional adventure story on its head.
Apple and knife
Harvill Secker, 2018; Vintage Classics 2025
Translated by Stephen J. Epstein
Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a female body in today’s world.
