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Review of Night of a Thousand Hells in The Observer, October 17, 2026.

“It’s a buoyant, boisterous and often brutal novel that deserves the acclaim.”

“It’s a measure of the transformative power of Paramaditha’s

On 7 October, the Europa Editions team and I stopped by The Strand—a favourite bookstore I visited often during my PhD days—to sign copies of Night of a Thousand Hells. Thank you for having me.

If you are in New York, you can get your si

Wimbledon Bookfest:
LALEH KHADIVI, AMY ABDELNOOR, AVNI DOSHI & INTAN PARAMADITHA
BELONGING AND ITS BORDERS

Saturday 17 October 2026, 17:40

Merton Arts Space at Wimbledon Library

…
From @wimbookfest website:

Four exciting novelists expl

Two reviews of Night of a Thousand Hells—in Buzz magazine @buzzmagwales by Rhianon Holley, and in The Coversation @theconversationdotcom by Manjeet Ridon. Thank you so much to the authors for reading and writing about the book. I really appreci

Night of a Thousand Hells (translated by Stephen J. Epstein and Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao) book tour in October 2026: New York → Brookline → London → York → Toronto.

Thank you to everyone who came out in New York and Brookline la

A bit late but today is US publication day for Night of a Thousand Hells (Malam Seribu Jahanam), and it came with this beautiful gift: the book is now a finalist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. To Stephen J. Epstein and Ti

Night of a Thousand Hells is The Independent’s Novel of the Month. Swipe for more early reviews from Foreword Reviews, Booklist and Shelf Awareness.

Translated by Stephen J. Epstein and Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao. Out this week from Europa Edit

One month as a Harvard Radcliffe fellow. I’m working on a novel about an intellectual (and loving, and tense, and ideologically conflicted) exchange between two women during the Cold War.

Things I want to remember:
Our offices at Byerly Hall.

Friends in Boston, please join me for the launch of Night of a Thousand Hells at @brooklinebooksmith, as part of their Transnational Literature Series @transnational.booksmith.

Thursday, October 8, 7pm Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookl

The North American dates of the Night of a Thousand Hells tour begin in just over a week 🐈&zwj;⬛

New York, Boston, Toronto, Atlanta: I hope to see you there.

UK dates in an upcoming post.

Details via @europaeditions

https://www.europaeditions.c

Honoured and delighted that Night of a Thousand Hells (Malam Seribu Jahanam) has been longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature @nationalbookfoundation. This is the first time a book translated from Indonesian has appeared

On Aug 26 I delivered the Tony and Yohanni Johns Lecture at the Australian National University: “Illegitimate Heirs: Waris and Feminist Gravedigging after Violence and Erasure.”

The lecture was grounded in the Waris Manifesto (Manifesto

Delighted to be speaking at Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival 2026, guest-curated by Dua Lipa and the Service95 Book Club. Save the date: Wednesday 28 October.
Full programme here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk

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