Intan Paramaditha

Intan Paramaditha is an Indonesian writer and academic; her works of fiction have been translated into English under the titles Apple and Knife as well as The Wandering by Stephen J. Epstein and published by Harvill Secker/Penguin Random House UK. Intan has won numerous accolades for her works, including the PEN Translates Award for The Wandering. Her works have been selected in the Best American Travel Writing 2021, White Review’s Book of the Year, as well as the World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations. A multidisciplinary artist, she got involved in stage play production, while editing the Translating Feminisms series initiated by the Tilted Axis Press. She earned a PhD from the New York University in 2014, and worked as a media studies lecturer in Macquarie University, Sydney. She also founded and manages the Women’s School of Thought, a decolonial feminist collective across the archipelago.

Intan Paramaditha adalah seorang pengarang dan akademisi dari Indonesia; karya-karya fiksinya, termasuk Sihir Perempuan dan Gentayangan: Pilih Sendiri Petualanganmu telah diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Inggris, masing-masing dengan judul Apple and Knife dan The Wandering oleh Stephen J. Epstein dan diterbitkan oleh Harvill Secker/ Penguin Random House UK. Intan telah memenangkan banyak sekali penghargaan atas karya-karyanya; salah satunya adalah PEN Translates Award untuk The Wandering. Karya-karyanya terpilih dalam The Best American Travel Writing 2021, Book of the Year oleh White Review serta 75 Notable Translations dari World Literature Today. Seorang seniman lintas disiplin, ia pernah terlibat karya pertunjukan panggung, sekaligus juga menyunting seri Translating Feminisms yang digagas oleh Tilted Axis Press. Ia mendapat gelar PhD dari New York University pada 2014, dan bekerja sebagai dosen kajian media di Macquarie University, Sydney. Ia juga menggagas dan mengelola Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan, sebuah kolektif feminis dekolonial lintas nusantara.