Toeti Heraty untuk Setiap Perempuan
Intan Paramaditha, Kompas, 15 Juni 2021 | Eulogi untuk Toeti Heraty (1933-2021) — Prosa lirik Calon Arang: Kisah Perempuan Korban Patriarki karya Toeti Heraty dibuka dengan kalimat persembahan: “Untuk setiap perempuan yang meredam kemarahan.”
ABC News - In a year without travel, this Indonesian author lets you choose your own adventure
The story starts with a pair of red shoes and a deal with the devil. But where it ends is up to reader — sort of. That's the concept behind Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha's latest novel, The Wandering. It's been longlisted for the Stella Prize — Australia's book award for women and non-binary authors — which this year features the most diverse array of writers in its eight-year history.
The Wandering was longlisted for the Stella Prize 2021
Since it was first awarded in 2013, the Stella Prize has become an influential and much-loved feature of the Australian literary calendar, significantly boosting sales and raising the profile of individual women and women’s writing in this country.
The Guardian - Stella prize 2021: finalists 'span the gamut' of human enterprise and experience
Twelve works have been longlisted for the $50,000 literary prize for Australian women and non-binary writers.
SCMP: Review | The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha puts the reader in charge
South China Morning Post review: The choose-your-own-adventure tale offers enchanting journeys through myth and folk tale, even if the fantastic options available are limited.
Nikkei Asia: Indonesian travel novel a tribute to open borders
NIKKEI ASIA - John Krich, July 31, 2020 - More than nine years ago the Indonesian feminist writer Intan Paramaditha began working on her first novel, a structurally ambitious pop fable that aimed primarily at liberating women from traditional roles to take to the roads of the world.
Books That Changed Me
Sydney Morning Herald - Books That Changed Me: Intan Paramaditha (May 30, 2020).
Options, The Edge: Intan Paramaditha explores displacement, feminism and the road not taken
Options, The Edge Malaysia: 'The Wandering' tackles politics and privileges of travel and desire, and the freedoms and limitations of the choices we make.
The Straits Times: Don the Devil's shoes and pick your own path
The Straits Times: Grown-up, globetrotting take on Choose Your Own Adventure books has 15 endings and took nine years to write. In Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha's debut novel, The Wandering, the narrator puts on a pair of magical red shoes gifted by the Devil, which lets the wearer wander the world - but will not let her stop.
National Centre for Writing: Nine must-read books in translation
Nine Must-Read Books in Translation: National Centre for Writing’s list of must-read books in translation includes Apple and Knife. “From the familiar to the surreal, our hand pick of essential books from writers across the world.”
The Saturday Paper: Intan Paramaditha, The Wandering
The Saturday Paper: Reminiscent of postmodern classics such as Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, The Wandering is a cleverly crafted tale about the illusion of free will, and the stakes and pressures that accompany the choices influenced by one’s identity in the world.
The Guardian: The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha review – existential journeys
The Wandering is the Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha’s first novel. And what a debut it is: an ingenious choose-your-own-adventure challenge, it is at least five books in one, a series of forking paths as imagined by Leibniz, Borges or Deleuze.
The Guardian - Intan Paramaditha: 'We are always haunted by the road not taken'
The Guardian, interview: The Indonesian author’s novel The Wandering allows readers to select their own path - but follows characters whose lives have often been decided for them.
On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel
Intan Paramaditha’s essay in Literary Hub: Questions of travel must consider the unequal power relations that characterize present global encounters and how they are enmeshed in the historical processes in the past.
Book Riot: 30 UK Literary Highlights for the First Half of 2020
The Wandering is on Book Riot‘s list of literary highlights.
Broadside Festival of Feminist Ideas
“Decolonising Feminism” panel at Broadside, two days of feminist programming from the Wheeler Centre.
ABC Radio National - Sense of Place: Intan Paramaditha
Interview with Jonathan Green, Blueprint for Living, ABC Radio National.