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Literature Of Singapore
The literature of Singapore comprises a collection of literary works by Singaporeans. It is written chiefly in the country's four official languages: English, Malay, Standard Mandarin and Tamil. While Singaporean literary works may be considered as also belonging to the literature of their specific languages, the literature of Singapore is viewed as a distinct body of literature portraying various aspects of Singapore society and forms a significant part of the culture of Singapore. Literature in all four official languages has been translated and showcased in publications such as the literary journal ''Singa'', that was published in the 1980s and 1990s with editors including Edwin Thumboo and Koh Buck Song, as well as in multilingual anthologies such as ''Rhythms: A Singaporean Millennial Anthology Of Poetry'' (2000), in which the poems were all translated three times each into the three languages. A number of Singaporean writers such as Tan Swie Hian and Kuo Pao Kun have contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north. The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased by 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the third highest population density in the world. With a multicultural population and recognising the need to respect cultural identities of the major ethnic groups within the nation, Singapore has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. English is the lingua franca and numerous public services are available only in Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Yap
Arthur Yap Chioh Hiong (; 1943 – 19 June 2006) was a Singaporean poet, writer and painter. Biography Arthur Yap was born in Singapore, the sixth child of a carpenter and a housewife. Yap attended St Andrew's School and the University of Singapore, after which he won a British Council scholarship to study at the University of Leeds in England. At Leeds Arthur earned a master's degree in Linguistics and English Language Teaching, later obtaining his PhD from the National University of Singapore in the years after he returned from Leeds. He stayed on in the University's Department of English Language and Literature as a lecturer between the years 1979 and 1998. Between 1992 and 1996, Yap served as a mentor with the Creative Arts Programme run by the Ministry of Education to help inspire students and nurture young writers at local secondary schools and junior colleges. Yap was then diagnosed with lung cancer, and received radiotherapy treatment. Yap was known to be an intense ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Chia
Grace Chia (born 1973) is a Singaporean writer, poet, journalist and editor. Career Chia has published numerous books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, including a novel, ''The Wanderlusters'' and a short story collection, ''Every Moving Thing That Lives Shall Be Food''. Her poetry collections includes ''womango'' in 1988, ''Cordelia'' in 2012 which was nominated for the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize and ''Mother of All Questions'' in 2017. Her chapbook ''The Cuckoo Conundrum'' was featured in ''The Straits Times'' as one of the choice picks from a box set series of chapbooks published by the NAC-NTU Writer-in-Residencies. ''womango'' engages confessional poetry, poetic prose, concrete poetry and performance poetry to explore themes of identity politics from an Asian, female point of view. In an interview with ''The Wall Street Journal'', former Director of the Singapore Writers Festival, Paul Tan, described her work, along with Cyril Wong Cyril Wong (; born 27 June 1977) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toh Hsien Min
Toh Hsien Min (born 1975) is a Singaporean poet. His poems have appeared in many literary journals (e.g. ''London Magazine'', the '' London Review of Books'' and ''Poetry Salzburg Review'') and have been translated into Finnish, French, Spanish, Russian and Italian. He has been invited to read his poems in various international poetry festivals such as the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Ars Interpres Poetry Festival in Sweden, the Runokuu Poetry Festival in Helsinki and the Marché de la Poésie in Paris. His poetry has been cited in the ''Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry'' as "the work of an observant traveller and inventive formalist, adept at casual rhyme, colloquial phrasing and poignant structural returns" and in ''Wasafiri'' for an "ability to cross distances while still maintaining an ironic distance ndthe revelations with which he continuously endues us".Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein. ''Wasafiri.'' Vol. 25, No. 1, March 2010, p. 91. Founder of the magazine the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Cheong
Felix Cheong is a Singaporean author and poet. Cheong has written two young adult fiction books used as part of a national education campaign – ''The Call From Crying House'' () and its sequel, ''The Woman In The Last Carriage'' (). Cheong's first collection of poetry, ''Temptation and Other Poems'' () was published in 1998 followed by a second collection in 1999, ''I Watch the Stars Go Out'' (), ''Broken by the Rain'' () in 2003, and ''Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems'' () in 2009. Cheong won the National Arts Council's Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000 and the poetry slam A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges. While formats can vary, slams are often loud and lively, with audience participation, cheering and dramatic delivery. ... at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival in 2004. His more recent writing such as in the ''Singapore Siu Dai'' serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Pang
Alvin Pang (Chinese: 冯啟明; pinyin: ''Féng Qǐ Míng''; born 1972, Singapore) was named 2005 Young Artist of the Year (Literature) by the National Arts Council Singapore. He holds a First Class Honours degree in English literature from the University of York and an Honorary Fellowship in Writing from the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (2002). In 2020, he was awarded a PhD in Writing from RMIT University, and appointed to the honorary position of Adjunct Professor of RMIT University in 2021. For his contributions, he was conferred the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2007, and the JCCI Foundation Education Award in 2008. He is listed in the ''Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English'' (2nd Edition). Works His first volume of poems, ''Testing the Silence'' (Ethos Books, 1997), was listed as one of the Top Ten Books of 1997 by The Straits Times and was short listed for the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) Book Award i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boey Kim Cheng
Boey Kim Cheng (; born 1965) is a Singaporean Australian poet. As a student, Boey won the National University of Singapore Poetry Writing/Creative Prose Competition and has since received the National Arts Council's Young Artist Award (1996). He taught creative writing at the University of Newcastle in Australia from 2003 to 2016. In 2016, Boey joined the Nanyang Technological University, where he was associate professor at the School of Humanities, but stepped down as Head of its English department in 2020. Early life Boey was born in Singapore in 1965. He received his secondary education at Victoria School and graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts degrees in English Literature from the National University of Singapore. In 1993, he won a scholarship from the Goethe-Institut to pursue German. He was sponsored by the United States Information Agency to attend the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Boey embarked on a doctoral program with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Math Paper Press
BooksActually is an independent bookstore operating online. It was formerly located in Singapore's Tiong Bahru district till 2020. History and description BooksActually was established by Kenny Leck and Karen Wai in 2005 on the second floor of a shophouse along Telok Ayer Street with capital pooled from savings and family. The bookstore subsequently moved to Ann Siang Hill in 2007, and opened a second outlet at Club Street in 2008. Due to an increase in rent, they closed up Ann Siang Hill and moved from Club Street to Yong Siak Street in Tiong Bahru in 2011. BooksActually regularly hosts literary events including book launches and poetry readings, acoustic sessions, and mini exhibitions. In 2011, the bookstore organised the exhibition ''An Ode to Penguin'' held at The Arts House, that showcased over 1,000 Penguin Books from their private collection. BooksActually is a regular organiser of pop-up stores at various retail locations around Singapore, such as Orchard Cineleisure, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethos Books
Established in 1997, Ethos Books is an independent book publisher based in Singapore. It is an imprint of Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd, a communications and design house. Ethos Books specialises in publishing literary works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry primarily from writers in Singapore. It has published several award-winning poetry volumes and anthologies by authors such as Felix Cheong, Alvin Pang, Alfian Sa'at, Cyril Wong and Daren Shiau. In recent years, it has published critical works on Singapore studies by scholars and activists such as Cherian George, Loh Kah Seng, Kevin YL Tan, Thum Ping Tjin, and Teo You Yenn. History In 1997, publisher Fong Hoe Fang founded Ethos Books, an imprint of Pagesetters Services, an advertising and communication design agency, to lend voice to diverse and emerging writers and to help foster a thriving literary culture. He launched it with a trio of titles by newcomers – namely Aaron Lee's A Visitation of Sunlight, Alvin Pang's Testi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Press
A small press is a publisher with annual sales below a certain level or below a certain number of titles published. The terms "indie publisher" and "independent press" and others are sometimes used interchangeably. Independent press is generally defined as publishers that are not part of large conglomerates or multinational corporations. Many small presses rely on specialization in genre fiction, poetry, or limited-edition books or magazines, but there are also thousands that focus on niche non-fiction markets. Definitions In the United States, this has been mentioned as publishers with annual turnover of under $50 million, or those that publish on average 10 or fewer titles per year. Other terms for small press, sometimes distinguished from each other and sometimes used interchangeably, are small publishers, independent publishers, or indie presses. Independent publishers (as defined above) made up about half of the market share of the book publishing industry in the US i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heng Siok Tian
Heng Siok Tian (born 1963) is a Singaporean poet and educator. She has published five volumes of poetry: ''Crossing the Chopsticks and Other Poems'' (1993), ''My City, My Canvas'' (1999), ''Contouring'' (2004), ''Is My Body a Myth'' (2011) and ''Mixing Tongues'' (2011). Biography Early life Heng was brought up in a Teochew-speaking family. In school, she found herself reconciling her traditional Chinese upbringing with her English-based education and her study of English literature. She received a Master of Arts in English Literature from the National University of Singapore in 1996, and a Master of Science in Information Studies from Nanyang Technological University in 2002. She began writing during her time at NUS, receiving the first prize in poetry and an honourable mention in the short story category in the 1985-1986 NUS Poetry and Short Story Writing Competition. She continued her literary education as a Fellow with the Iowa International Writing Program at the Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Tay
Simon Tay Seong Chee () is a Singaporean lawyer and legal academic who served as a Nominated Member of Parliament between 1997 and 2003. Early life and education Tay was born on 4 January 1961 in Singapore. His father, Tay Seow Huah, was a senior civil servant. Tay graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1986 with a Bachelor of Laws with honours degree. During his time as an undergraduate, Tay served as the president of the NUS Students' Union for three terms. In 1993, Tay went on to pursue a Master of Laws degree at Harvard University as a Fulbright Scholar. There, he won the Laylin Prize in 1994 for the best graduate paper in Public International Law. Career 1986–1995 From 1986 to 1991, Tay began his career as a lawyer with Shook Lin & Bok, Advocates & Solicitors.http://yorizumi.sfc.keio.ac.jp/apec/doc/simontay_cv.doc There, he specialised in corporate litigation, advising corporate clients, including major banks and property companies. In 1989, Tay w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
