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Festival Cipta Media Ekspresi: Etalase Pemikiran Perempuan
Festival Cipta Media Ekspresi: Etalase Pemikiran Perempuan

Cipta Media Ekspresi menyelenggarakan festival seni dan budaya bertajuk “Festival Cipta Media Ekspresi: Etalase Pemikiran Perempuan” (CME-Fest) pada 26-28 April 2019 di Taman Budaya Yogyakarta.

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Intan ParamadithaApril 29, 2019Cipta Media Ekspresi
London March 2019: Event Highlights
London March 2019: Event Highlights

Events at London Book Fair, English PEN/ Free World Centre, Essex Book Festival.

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Intan ParamadithaMarch 22, 2019
Interview with BBC Radio 4 Open Book
Interview with BBC Radio 4 Open Book

Interview with Mariella Frostrup, BBC Radio 4 Open Book.

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Intan ParamadithaMarch 19, 2019Media Coverage
Intan Paramaditha | 'I wanted to explore sexuality in a grotesque way' 
Intan Paramaditha | 'I wanted to explore sexuality in a grotesque way' 

“When I started writing, I wanted to do something different: to explore bodies and sexuality in a more grotesque way, looking at the horrific and ugly. “ - Interview with The Bookseller.

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Intan ParamadithaMarch 14, 2019Media Coverage
Intan Paramaditha: London Book Fair and related events
Intan Paramaditha: London Book Fair and related events

Intan Paramaditha will participate in the London Book Fair Indonesia Market Focus Programme (March 12-14, 2019) and speak at various events in the UK.

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Intan ParamadithaMarch 2, 2019
Bongkar: Siasat Feminis dalam Seni dan Budaya di Indonesia
Bongkar: Siasat Feminis dalam Seni dan Budaya di Indonesia

Intan Paramaditha | Magdalene, 27 Februari 2019 | Terlepas dari dominasi patriarki di ranah seni dan budaya, perempuan terus bersiasat.

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Intan ParamadithaFebruary 28, 2019
Intan Paramaditha’s novel wins PEN’s two prestigious grants 
Intan Paramaditha’s novel wins PEN’s two prestigious grants 

The Jakarta Post: Intan’s 2017 adventure novel Gentayangan: Pilih Sendiri Petualangan Sepatu Merahmu (The Wandering: Choose Your Own Red Shoes Adventure) won the PEN Translates Award and Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America.

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Intan ParamadithaJanuary 31, 2019Media Coverage
"Mother, Monster"
"Mother, Monster"

An essay published in Oh Comely Magazine: “My mother had gone to another space before, and had returned as another woman.”

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Intan ParamadithaJanuary 29, 2019essay
The White Review Books of the Year
The White Review Books of the Year

Apple and Knife is included in The White Review 2018 Books of the Year.

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Intan ParamadithaDecember 30, 2018Media Coverage
PERIOD: Kelas Kritik Sastra dan Film 2018
PERIOD: Kelas Kritik Sastra dan Film 2018

PERIOD WORKSHOP -Kelas Kritik Sastra dan Film: Jakarta, 17-18, 2018. Bersama Melani Budianta dan Lisabona Rahman.

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Intan ParamadithaDecember 19, 2018Period
Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha, translated by Stephen J. Epstein
Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha, translated by Stephen J. Epstein

STRANGE HORIZONS, Rachel Hill - With sexy monsters and the monstrously sexy, these stories map the ranges of female desire, rage and transformation. So be warned: here be empowered monsters. And they are hungry.

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Intan ParamadithaDecember 12, 2018Apple and Knife
Rewriting the Female Narrative
Rewriting the Female Narrative

CHINA DAILY - A strong contingent of women is leading the pack of writers featured in the newest edition of Hong Kong International Literary Festival which opens today.

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Intan ParamadithaNovember 3, 2018Media Coverage
Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan Cipta Media Ekspresi
Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan Cipta Media Ekspresi

Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan digagas bagi pekerja seni budaya maupun periset tentang seni budaya yang memiliki ide potensial untuk menambah pengetahuan perempuan yang disampaikan dalam seleksi hibah Cipta Media Ekspresi 2018.

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Intan ParamadithaOctober 19, 2018Cipta Media Ekspresi
Hong Kong International Literary Festival & Singapore Writers Festival
Hong Kong International Literary Festival & Singapore Writers Festival

Schedule: Hong Kong International Literary Festival and Singapore Writers Festival, November 2018.

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Intan ParamadithaSeptember 28, 2018
Apple and Knife: A Riot of Unruly Women
Apple and Knife: A Riot of Unruly Women

THE MONTHLY, Emily Bitto - “The stories in Apple and Knife are raw, fun, excessive, and told with a wink, but they are underlaid with an unsettling awareness of the common fate of ‘disobedient women’.”

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Intan ParamadithaMay 6, 2018Apple and Knife
The New Wave: Emerging Female Writers Push the Boundaries
The New Wave: Emerging Female Writers Push the Boundaries

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - …They are the creations of emerging women writers whose provocative stories and styles are pushing the boundaries of what contemporary literature can be and do.

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Intan ParamadithaMay 5, 2018Media Coverage
Dark, Feminist Tales Puncture Asian Pieties
Dark, Feminist Tales Puncture Asian Pieties

THE AUSTRALIAN - Described as “two of Southeast Asia’s most exciting literary talents”, Paramaditha and Teo have both created darkly funny, deeply feminist books that savagely skewer the conservatism and hypocrisies of their respective societies.

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Intan ParamadithaApril 29, 2018Media Coverage
Pengumuman Penerima Hibah Cipta Media Ekspresi
Pengumuman Penerima Hibah Cipta Media Ekspresi

Penerima hibah 3,5 milyar Cipta Media Ekspresi diumumkan pada tanggal 21 April, 2018.

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Intan ParamadithaApril 22, 2018Cipta Media Ekspresi
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I’m not sure if 2022 will be a kinder year, but I don’t think I’d be able to survive the pandemic without Ugo and Ilana. A special shout-out to my girl Ilana, who had her first part-time job and started her 1st year at the Universit
2021 EVENTS — Some of my favorite events this year. To watch/ listen, all links are in bio (except for the last one but there’s a mini clip on witches on slide 7 😊)

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@makassarwriters 2021: Immobility and Displacement: The Life of Refu
Some moments I cherished this year:

March: The Wandering was longlisted for the @thestellaprize. I am also delighted for the Stella-sponsored writing residency at Life at Springfield in 2022 (this should have taken place in 2021 but the trip was can
Thank you for reading Apple and Knife, @booksolace! ♥️

Posted @withregram • @booksolace #booksolacereads #bookreview 
Apple and Knife, Intan Paramaditha 
Translated from Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein
(Brow Books, 2018)

A short story
It’s always a delight to find #TheWandering on a list of favorite books. Thank you!

#TheWanderingnovel 

Posted @withregram • @yuanvillanueva 2021 favorites and highly recommended books. Books I have pressed against my chest because of pu
Selamat Hari Pergerakan Perempuan. Kawan kami di @pemikiranperempuan, @lisabonarahman, mengelola panel Jakarta Biennale tentang peran perempuan dalam sejarah seni untuk memperingati #KongresPerempuan 1928. Saksikan malam ini.

Posted @withregram &bul
VIDEO: LCB EVENT -- On December 13, I was in conversation with Billy-Ray Belcourt, Adania Shibli, and Priya Basil in the event “Room. Make or Take? On the Politics and Poetry of Space.” What does room mean, and how do we approach it in ou
Last month on my newsletter I held a book contest to win a free signed copy of The Wandering. I asked readers to recommend three books that they thought I should read or reread. Most of the titles are exciting—many Asian writers, and women writ
A very sad day: bell hooks has passed away. Our collective effort to decolonize feminism is indebted to her thinking and activism. In the 1980s she already interrogated the universalizing, liberal feminist idea of ‘common oppression’ that
LCB EVENT: “ROOM. MAKE OR TAKE?” - In October I was invited by Literarisches Colloquium Berlin @lcb.berlin to participate in their digital residency programme, curated by Priya Basil, with three other writers: Billy-Ray Belcourt, Adania S
Guruku Cantik Sekali (My Beautiful Teacher, 1979), directed by Ida Farida.

How do we trace potentialities for feminist aesthetics in the work of a commercial filmmaker who, in the 1980s, was known as the only woman director actively making film in t
Thank you for the IG review, @lesenwanderer!  #Repost @withregram • @lesenwanderer ✨Recommend me your favourite translated Indonesian novel! ✨

What a journey. For me, works by Indonesian authors are like a unique tea blend. There’s nothin
Thank you @kaministoryteller for your adaptation of “The Queen” from #appleandknife at #singaporewritersfestival. 🙏 Go watch the Video on Demand! 👇

Posted @withregram • @kaministoryteller The story of ‘The Queen’ by In
Thank you @shabrinareads. I enjoyed the @thediversiteabookclub book discussion! Posted @withregram • @shabrinareads Apple & Knife by Intan Paramaditha 📚

"Blood and ghosts. I nodded. It made sense. They always showed up together in sto

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