NIGHT OF A THOUSAND HELLS

Night of a Thousand Hells' exploration of Islamic culture in Southeast Asia, intertwined with its tackling of contemporary social issues, is a vital and urgent contribution to global conversations about identity, culture and politics. Inspired by real-life events, the novel addresses religiously motivated violence and its consequences from various perspectives within the Muslim community.

Yet even as the work is timely, its themes are timeless and universal: set in the USA, Indonesia and Australia, Night of a Thousand Hells reflects powerfully on the darker aspects of the human experience.

Paramaditha is co-founder of Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan (SPP), a trans-archipelagic feminist collective working to challenge colonial, capitalist, and heteropatriarchal knowledge production by advancing feminist perspectives from the Indonesian archipelago and the Global South. SPP organises an annual feminist school and festival.who has been invited to literary festivals around the world, has been profiled in publications including the Guardian, BBC Radio 4, and ABC News, and her essays have been featured in The Best American Travel Writing 2021, Literary Hub, The Nation, et al.

Recipient of the 2025-6 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, 2024 Conrad Masterclass Speaker, academic, activist, feminist, author Intan Paramaditha is a Fulbright scholar with a PhD from New York University and is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Her short-story collection, Apple and Knife (2018, also translated by Epstein and published by Harvill) has recently been selected for inclusion on the Vintage Classics 'Weird Girls' series alongside classics from Audrey Neffinger, Angela Carter, Yoko Ogawa, Ottessa Moshfegh, et al.