Of mixed heritage of Javanese, and Euro-Syrian, AainaA-Ridtz won a 5-year Reading Scholarship at the NurSaid Foundation in Turkey from the North American Islamic Society to study Islamic Science, and Theology in 1990.
AainaA-Ridtz took to the stage in a regional exposition performing Classical Piano at the age of nine at Japan’s International Exposition representing Malaysia, won her first Grand Prix in literature at eleven and thereafter as Laureate in the Concours du Roman de la Nouvelle Francophone. She exhibited her first gouache at thirteen at the National Museum in Kuala Lumpur, and thereafter has won awards as a writer, poet, and photographer.
Her poems have been honoured and published in Amherst Society, and most recently published in a University of Cambridge publication “The World’s Strands” currently sold in Germany, and available on Amazon.de