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May 13, 2020
The Straits Times: Don the Devil's shoes and pick your own path
THE STRAITS TIMES
MAY 12, 2020, 5:00 AM SGT
Grown-up, globetrotting take on Choose Your Own Adventure books has 15 endings and took nine years to writeArts Correspondent
"All those girls/who wore the red shoes/each boarded a train that would not stop," reads the poe...
May 6, 2020
National Centre for Writing: Nine must-read books in translation
From the familiar to the surreal, our hand pick of essential books from writers across the world.
National Centre for Writing’s list of must-read books in translation includes Apple and Knife.
May 5, 2019
Each year, the National Centre for Writing works with writers and literary translators from all over...
March 21, 2020
The Saturday Paper: Intan Paramaditha, The Wandering
March 21, 2020
Review by Cher Tan
In these uncertain times, the concept of travel is increasingly fraught. While borders were already closed for some, they have been further tightened in the wake of a global pandemic. But depending on who you are and the passport you hold,...
March 8, 2020
The Guardian: The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha review – existential journeys
Fri 6 Mar 2020 20.00 AEDT
The Indonesian writer’s debut novel cleverly uses the choose-your-own-adventure form to explore travel and identity
The Wandering is the Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha’s first novel (her first story collection to appear in English,...
March 6, 2020
The Guardian - Intan Paramaditha: 'We are always haunted by the road not taken'
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
Fri 6 Mar 2020 01.33 AEDT
Last modified on Mon 9 Mar 2020 20.57 AEDT
‘Travel is an ancient desire’ … Intan Paramaditha.
‘Onism”, according to John Koe...
March 3, 2020
On the Complicated Questions Around Writing About Travel
"Travel was and will always be about exclusion."
March 2, 2020
Jakarta, 1994: I wanted to write a story about magic slippers that would take me anywhere. I ended up writing a novel about demonic red shoes as an adult, with more complex reasons than fulfi...
February 17, 2020
Interview with Restless Magazine
Restless Magazine, February 2020
Tell us about what you do...
I explore two major themes in my writing: travel and the idea of disobedient women. I am interested in travel not as a lifestyle but as a set of questions around mobility in the global world – why people move, w...
January 21, 2020
Book Riot: 30 UK Literary Highlights for the First Half of 2020
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The Wandering (Harvill Secker, February 2020) is on Book Riot’s list of literary highlights.
An ingeniously crafted debut which lets you make your own choices about where you want the ...
November 13, 2019
Broadside Festival of Feminist Ideas
“Broadside is the new feminist ideas festival from the Wheeler Centre. Over the weekend of 9 and 10 November at Melbourne Town Hall, Broadside will present two days of unabashedly feminist programming, spotlighting a remarkable line-up of international and local speakers,...
December 26, 2014
The Jakarta Post BookWORM interview
Escaping her comfort zone
Novia D. Rulistia, The Jakarta Post | Feature | Mon, November 10 2014, 11:28 AM
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For author Intan Paramaditha, reading is a way out of her comfort zone, as she does not want to feel secure in what she knows. She believes that great books can challenge her assumptions and boundaries, especially her sense of security.
As her life revolves around scholarly work, she now reads a lot of humanities and social science books. However, she still reads literature and other popular books.
“I still read popular books that everyone talks about just to keep me updated, but many times I don’t finish them because I need to save my time for more challenging books,” said Intan, whose short story, Klub Solidaritas Suami Hilang (The Missing Husband Solidarity Club), won Kompas’ daily best short story.
“I’m not sorry for being highly selective because I am not getting any younger, so I don’t have time to read for the sake of killing time.”
The 34-year-old, who is currently reading Publics and Counterpublics by social theorist Michael Warner, says she relies greatly on reading applications as she is always on the move.
“E-books and PDFs are life savers,” said the writer of Goyang Penasaran (Obsessive Twist), which was adapted into a play.
Intan shared the best three books from her shelves.
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
I had been a fan of dark stories when I first encountered Frankenstein at 19, but it was the first book that inspired me to read — and later, write — horror with a feminist perspective. It deploys the myth of Prometheus to critique the notion of creation, technology and patriarchal society. The themes of women and horror in my short story collection Sihir Perempuan (Black Magic Woman) were influenced by this book as well as other work by women writers such as Margaret Atwood and Anne Sexton.
Plays
by William Shakespeare
I always love Shakespeare’s evil women (Lady Macbeth, Goneril, Gertrude, Sycorax) and don’t we all have a bit of Shylock and Iago (Shakespeare’s fictional characters) in ourselves? Tragedies aside, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the first play I read in high school. It was the reason why I studied English literature as an undergraduate and became an avid reader of plays.
Orang-orang Bloomington
by Budi Darma
I dismissed this as a teenager and rediscovered it in my early 30s. I did a close reading of the book with my boyfriend as mature readers and writers. Today, I treasure the book as the best Indonesian short story collection I’ve read. I am inspired by its perverse characters, anti-romantic cosmopolitan worldview and subtle but sadistic storytelling.
— JP/ Novia D. Rulistia –
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