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Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian-born novelist, scholar, and feminist activist whose work asks how power moves through bodies and borders and what Global South feminist storytelling can do to resist and reimagine. Her latest novel, Night of a Thousand Hells, translated by Stephen J. Epstein and Tiffany Tsao, is longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. A 2026-2027 Harvard Radcliffe Fellow, she is the author of the novel The Wandering (2020; trans. Stephen J. Epstein), longlisted for the Stella Prize and awarded the English PEN Translates Award, and the short story collection Apple and Knife, which reimagines horror and fairy tales through a feminist lens and appears in the Vintage Classics "Weird Girls" series. Her fiction has been translated into English, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, Thai, and Italian.
Paramaditha holds a Ph.D. from New York University and serves as Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication, Society and Culture, Macquarie University, Sydney. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas (with Zhang Zhen, Sangjoon Lee, and Debashree Mukherjee), recipient of the Aruna Vasudev NETPAC Best Book on Asia Award. She edited Deviant Disciples: Indonesian Women Poets for Tilted Axis Press' Translating Feminisms series, and her essay was selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2021. Her scholarly articles appear in journals including Feminist Review, Film Quarterly, Visual Anthropology, and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies as well as numerous edited volumes.
She was a Civitella Ranieri fellow and a writer in residence at the Asia Creative Writing Programme at Nanyang Technological University Singapore, and has received awards and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies, the American Association of University Women, Fulbright, and New York University's Jay Leyda Award for Academic Excellence.
Paramaditha has been profiled in, among others, The Guardian, BBC Radio 4, ABC News, ABC Radio National, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, The Straits Times, China Daily, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Jakarta Post. Her writing appears in The Sydney Review of Books, Literary Hub, The Nation, Electric Literature, and Asian American Writers' Workshop.
She has delivered keynote speeches and lectures at the Conrad Festival Award Gala, Triennial Australian Literary Studies Convention, Harvard University, and Australian National 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, Leiden University, Goethe University, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
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 organises an annual feminist school and the ETALASE feminist festival.
