Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian author, scholar, and feminist activist. Her latest novel, Night of a Thousand Hells, translated by Stephen J. Epstein and Tiffany Tsao, is a finalist for the 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature. A Harvard Radcliffe Fellow, she has also written The Wandering (2020), longlisted for the Stella Prize and winner of an English PEN Translates Award, and the story collection Apple and Knife (2018), part of Vintage Classics’ ‘Weird Girls’ series. She holds a PhD from New York University and is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University, Sydney. She co-founded the feminist collective Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan.
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