Intan Paramaditha | Korean Literature Now (vol. 52 Summer 2021) — Saha Mansion is a dystopian story about how places and bodies are regulated in a city-state taken over by corporate power. It asks questions about lives that matter and what survival means in a capitalist regime where stability is maintained through necropolitics.
Read MoreEtalase Pemikiran Perempuan 2021 (Etalase) adalah ruang sirkulasi pemikiran perempuan Nusantara di ranah seni budaya dengan semangat lintas disiplin, wilayah geografis, budaya, dan generasi. Etalase Pemikiran Perempuan merupakan inisiatif Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan.
Read MoreIntan 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.”
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreSince 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.
Read MoreTwelve works have been longlisted for the $50,000 literary prize for Australian women and non-binary writers.
Read MoreSouth 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.
Read MoreNIKKEI 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.
Read MoreSydney Morning Herald - Books That Changed Me: Intan Paramaditha (May 30, 2020).
Read MoreOptions, The Edge Malaysia: 'The Wandering' tackles politics and privileges of travel and desire, and the freedoms and limitations of the choices we make.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreNine 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.”
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreIntan 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.
Read MoreAn interview with Restless Magazine (February 2020).
Read MoreThe Wandering is on Book Riot‘s list of literary highlights.
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