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Intan Paramaditha is an author and academic. Her debut novel The Wandering (Harvill Secker 2020, translated by Stephen J. Epstein) was longlisted for the Stella Prize in Australia and received the English PEN Translates Award. Her fiction works have been translated into English, Polish, Turkish, and Thai, with Italian and Japanese translations forthcoming. Her latest novel Malam Seribu Jahanam (Night of a Thousand Hells, 2023) blends Gothic and Islamic elements with Asian folk tales to critique the violence rooted in middle-class culture.
Paramaditha holds a Ph.D. from New York University and serves as Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas (with Zhang Zhen, Sangjoon Lee, and Debashree Mukherjee). She edited Deviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets for Tilted Axis Press' Translating Feminism series, and her essay was selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2021. She has received the Tempo Best Literary Fiction and Kompas Best Short Story awards and was shortlisted for the Khatulistiwa Literary Award in 2005 and 2017.
She was a writer in residence at the Asia Creative Writing Programme at Nanyang Technological University Singapore and is a recipient of the 2025-2026 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship.
Paramaditha has been profiled in, among others, The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, ABC News, ABC Radio National, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asian Review, The Straits Times, China Daily, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Jakarta Post.
Her writing appears in The Sydney Review of Books, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, and Asian American Writers Workshop. She wrote the foreword to Budi Darma's short story collection People from Bloomington (Penguin Classics, 2022), also published in The Nation.
Paramaditha has delivered keynote speeches and lectures at the Conrad Festival Award Gala, Triennial Australian Literary Studies Convention, and Harvard University. She has been invited to international literary events including the Sydney Writers' Festival, Broadside Feminist Ideas Festival in Melbourne, Europalia Arts Festival in Brussels, London Book Fair, New Zealand Festival, Singapore Writers Festival, and Hong Kong International Literary Festival. She has also given lectures at the University of Minnesota, University of Hawaii, Yale University, University of Sydney, Australian National University, Leiden University, Goethe University, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
Her creative and academic research examines structures of power, politics of travel and mobility, and anti-colonial feminist knowledge production. She has received awards and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies, NYU Jay Leyda Award for Academic Excellence, American Association of University Women, and Fulbright. Her scholarly articles appear in journals including Feminist Review, Film Quarterly, Visual Anthropology, and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies as well as edited volumes.
Paramaditha co-founded Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan (SPP), a trans-archipelagic feminist collective working to challenge colonial, capitalist, and heteropatriarchal knowledge production by advancing feminist perspectives from the Indonesian archipelago and the Global South. SPP organizes an annual feminist school and the ETALASE festival.
