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Lives in a Space of Necropolitics, Korean Literature Now/ Summer 2021

 

SAHA MANSION: LIVES IN A SPACE OF NECROPOLITICS

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...

Etalase Pemikiran Perempuan 2021

 

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Toeti Heraty untuk Setiap Perempuan

Toeti Heraty dan lukisan Calon Arang karya Rio Helmi. Foto: © Intan Paramaditha, 2019. Mohon tidak gunakan gambar tanpa izin | Please do not use this image without permission.

 Intan Paramaditha
Kompas, 15 Juni 2021

Prosa lirik Calon Arang: Kisah Perempuan Korban Patriar...

ABC News - In a year without travel, this Indonesian author lets you choose your own adventure

By Erin Handley

Posted WedWednesday 24 MarMarch 2021 at 6:48am, updated WedWednesday 24 MarMarch 2021 at 5:42pm

Baca dalam bahasa Indonesia / Read this story in Bahasa Indonesia

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 ...

The Wandering was longlisted for the Stella Prize 2021

March 4, 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. This year, we’re thrilled to welcome a further twelve masterf...

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

A slew of debut works feature among the finalists in the 2021 Stella prize.

The longlist for the annual literary award for Australian female and non-binary writers was announced on Thursday evening.

Among the contende...

SCMP: Review | The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha puts the reader in charge

The choose-your-own-adventure tale offers enchanting journeys through myth and folk tale, even if the fantastic options available are limited.

Bernard Cohen

South China Morning Post/

Post Magazine

Published: 1:45pm, 7 Nov, 2020

The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha (translated from Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein), Harvill Secke...

Nikkei Asia: Indonesian travel novel a tribute to open borders

ARTS

Indonesian travel novel a tribute to open borders

'The Wandering' attacks male privilege, but extols a bygone era of nomadic freedom

JOHN KRICH, Contributing writer

July 31, 2020 04:00 JST

BANGKOK -- More than nine years ago the Indonesian feminist writer Intan Paramaditha began working on her first novel, a structurally ...

Books That Changed Me

 

Intan Paramaditha is the author of Apple and Knife, a collection of dark stories about disobedient women. Her first novel, The Wandering, won a PEN Translates Award and is published by Harvill Secker.

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

I found Frankenstein at the British Council library in Jakarta in the late ’90s. Just like Mary Shelley when she was writing her story, I was an angry 19-year-old, with a penchant for the gothic and sympathy for the monster.Frankenstein is a feminist critique of knowledge an...

Options, The Edge: Intan Paramaditha explores displacement, feminism and the road not taken

 

'The Wandering' tackles politics and privileges of travel and desire, and the freedoms and limitations of the choices we make. 

PEOPLE

By Tan Gim Ean

12 May 2020 - 9:23am

The Wandering was translated by Stephen J Epstein from the Indonesian edition titled Gentayangan: Pilih S...