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Intan Paramaditha s first book, the short story collection Sihir Perempuan Black Magic Woman, was one of the five finalists for the 2005 Khatulistiwa Literary Award, Indonesia s top prize for fiction.

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Jakarta Indonesia BTW is an imprint of the Lontar Foundation Editorial Team: John H McGlynn (Senior Editor) Yusi Avianto Pareanom (Indonesian-language Managing Editor) Nirwan Dewanto Nukila Amal (Co-editors) Pamela Allen (English-language Managing Editor) Jan Budweg (German-language Managing Editor) Saira Kasim Wikan Satriati (Editorial Assistants) Publication of this book was made possible, in part, with the generous assistance of BNI 46 Partial funding for its translation was provided by the Translation Funding Program of Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Republic of Indonesia.

With that as its mission, the Foundation has published close to 200 books containing translations of literary work by several hundred Indonesian authors.

In its 28 years of existence, Lontar has published numerous significant and landmark works.

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By the end of this year, 2015, for instance, Lontar s Modern Library of Indonesia series will contain fifty titles by many of Indonesia s most important authors, with representative literary work spanning the entire twentieth century and beyond.

These titles, together with The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Drama, The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Short Stories, and The Lontar Anthology of Indonesian Poetry the latter two of which will be published this year will make it possible to teach and foster appreciation of Indonesian literature anywhere in vi vii.

Further, with changes in print technology, Lontar s titles are now available throughout the world in a matter of days and for a fraction of the cost in former times.

Naturally, however, given the scope of time covered by Lontar publications (from the late nineteenth century to the present) many of these authors are now elderly or already deceased.

Which is why Lontar has now developed a new imprint, BTW Books, through which the Foundation will now begin to introduce to the world other talented Indonesian writers whose work is hardly known outside the country s borders yet has been deemed by both literary critics and Lontar s editorial board to be worthy of international attention.

In general, authors who already have one or more books available in translation, either in English or another major international language, were not considered for inclusion in this, the first stage, of the series.) Because of the abundance of talented Indonesian authors, the selection of the first 25 authors was difficult to make, but Lontar s hope is that if the series proves successful in achieving its goal, the Foundation will then be able to produce translations by another 25 authors and then another 25 authors and so on in the years to come.

Because of the not-for-profit nature of Lontar s work, none of Lontar s numerous ventures would be possible without the generosity of others.

In the case of BTW Books, Lontar is especially grateful to BNI 46 for its generosity in underwriting a large percentage of the cost of this series publication.

Lontar is also grateful to the authors in this first stage of the series who, in their knowledge of the promotional nature of this series, agreed to forego royalties and other forms of monetary recompense.

After graduating from the University of Indonesia, she served as a lecturer in literature at her alma mater and then went on to complete a PhD in Cinema Studies at New York University in In addition to fiction, she has also published academic works about cinema, gender and sexuality in journals both within Indonesia and internationally.

Long before pop culture s current trend of stories about vampire and supernatural creatures, Intan Paramaditha had been writing stories with gothic and horror themes.

Depicted with a feminine sensibility, the majority of her protagonists are femmes fatales or madwomen in the attic, widely considered monsters and freaks, frequently isolated, and making for an uncomfortable fit within the social order.

Inspiration for her fiction comes from fairytales and legends, including the urban variety.

In In her short stories we also meet with such dark characters as a dwarf who is a cemetery watchman, a killer dangdut singer, a secretary-cum-vampire, a shaman-cum-midwife, and an unsavory playboy who chooses the wrong victim.

A primal silent darkness lurks within her fiction, a darkness that imprints its traces and spreads its shadows, before forcibly insinuating itself amidst the familiar light of daily life, amidst the normal, the natural, the illuminated, and the understood.

The darkness that swallows brightness into its black robes brings her narratives to a close.

Mysteries do not always receive an ultimate answer, nor do they offer liberation or redemption from tragedy.

It is as if the ghosts (literal or figurative) that pursue her characters cause them to become ghosts themselves.

They are reduced to the shells of bodies in life, their minds forever haunted by the long shadows of the past.

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