Intan Paramaditha

Shortlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Night of a Thousand Hells, author and scholar Intan Paramaditha anchors Indonesian literature on the global stage. A Harvard Radcliffe Fellow, Civitella Ranieri Fellow, and winner of an English PEN Translates Award for The Wandering—which was also longlisted for the Stella Prize—her work is published in major editions including Vintage Classics. Holding an NYU Ph.D. and lecturing at Macquarie University, the Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan co-founder channels dark, subversive storytelling to amplify Global South perspectives.