It’s a reminder that borders are real, and a playful experiment that turns the traditional adventure story on its head. She has been invited to international festivals and academic forums and is actively involved in several feminist projects focusing on cultural activism in Indonesia. The Wandering is a novel about the highs and lows of global nomadism, the politics and privileges of travel and desire, and the freedoms and limitations of the choices we make. She holds a PhD from New York University and teaches Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University.

Intan was the winner of the Kompas Best Short Story Award in 2013 and the co-author of horror anthology Kumpulan Budak Setan ( The Devil’s Slaves Club, 2010), with Eka Kurniawan and Ugoran Prasad. The novel received the PEN Translates Award from English PEN and the PEN/ Heim Translation Fund Grant from PEN America, and it will be also be published by Harvill Secker in 2020. Gentayangan ( The Wandering), her debut novel on travel and displacement where readers choose their own narrative path, was selected as Tempo Best Literary Work for Prose Fiction in 2017. Epstein, takes subversive feminist horror to new levels, and was published by Brow Books (Australia) and Harvill Secker (UK) in 2018. Her short story collection Apple and Knife, translated into English by Stephen J. Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian fiction writer and a lecturer at the Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney.

Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian fiction writer and academic based in Sydney, whose works focus on the intersection between gender and sexuality, culture and politics.

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