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Showing posts with label Elaine Chiew contemporary voices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elaine Chiew contemporary voices. Show all posts
Thursday 25 January 2024

Dipika Mukherjee chats with Elaine Chiew About Writer's Postcards and her travel-writing

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Credit: SC Shekar Bio: Dr. Dipika Mukherjee’s collection of travel essays, WRITER’S POSTCARDS (Penguin Random House SEA), was published in O...
Friday 27 October 2023

Fantabulous Nonya cookbook author Sharon Wee dishes on the new edition of Growing Up In A Nonya Kitchen

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Courtesy of Author About the Author: Sharon Wee was born and raised in Singapore, graduating from the National University of Singapore. She ...
Friday 29 September 2023

Pulitzer finalist Vauhini Vara launches her short story collection This is Salvaged.

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Courtesy of W.W. Norton and Author Synopsis This is Salvaged  (W.W. Norton & Company, 2023).   A young girl reads the encyclopedia to he...
Thursday 24 August 2023

Award-winning writer Saras Manickam dishes about authorial ego, complicated women and race discrimination in Malaysia in My Mother Pattu

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  Courtesy of Author About the Book My Mother Pattu  (Penguin SEA, 2023).   Deeply humane, in turn wry and humorous, the stories in this col...
Thursday 27 July 2023

Eternal Summer of the Homeland: Agnes Chew talks about writing a story collection and being the Asia Winner of the CSSP

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Courtesy of Author Book Synopsis The stories in Agnes Chew’s first fiction collection illuminate the complexity of choice when duty and desi...
Thursday 29 June 2023

Ghost Girl, Banana: Elaine Chiew Chats With Acclaimed Debut Novelist Wiz Wharton

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About the Book: Set between the last years of the “Chinese Windrush” in 1966 and Hong Kong’s Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inherit...
Thursday 25 May 2023

Elaine Chiew Interviews Khanh Ha, author of prize-winning short story collection All The Rivers Flow Into The Sea.

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About the Book: From Vietnam to America, All the Rivers Flow into the Sea is a short story collection, jewel- like, evocative, and layered,...
Thursday 24 November 2022

Khairat Kita: Interview with Fauzy Ismail and Zakaria Zainal

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A  collection of interviews, photographs, essays and personal reflections,  Khairat Kita  is a project documenting the last few remaining Ma...
Thursday 30 June 2022

'Badass' Women in Singapore Art and Literature

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Source:Wikicommons, Movie Poster Maxine Hong Kingston’s  The Woman Warrior  (The Library of America, repr. 2022) had this one line, “Girls a...
Thursday 26 May 2022

Crime Noir Graphic Novels Spotlight: Elaine Chiew Chats with Felix Cheong and Arif Rafhan on their collaboration for SPRAWL

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Felix Cheong, courtesy of author   About the Author: Felix Cheong has written 23 books across different genres, including poetry, short stor...
Thursday 28 April 2022

Asian Cartography At Its Best: The NLB Exhibition and Literary Maps

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  Asian cartography has a very special place in my heart. Cartography is Western-centric but the maps currently on exhibition until May 2022...
Thursday 24 March 2022

Wesley Leon Aroozoo Shares His Inspiration for "The Punkhawala and the Prostitute"

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As the saying goes, “History is written by the victors” and with that the stories and documentations of the forgotten or lesser regarded in ...

The House of Little Sisters: Eva Wong Nava Writes About The Challenges of Writing YA Historical Fiction

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Thank you, Elaine Chiew, for the invitation to share about the challenges and issues in regard to writing historical fiction for a teenage a...
Friday 4 March 2022

TEXTURES 2022: AN INTERDISCPLINARY APPROACH TO LITERATURE & ART IN THE SINGAPORE HEARTLANDS

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The fifth edition of TEXTURES (4 March 4 to 3 April) returns with the theme  The Great Escape , opening in six Festival Pavilion locations (...
Thursday 24 February 2022

Small London Indie Press Leopard Print Releases First Anthology of Asian Stories

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This week's Contemporary Voices column is written by Ivy Ngeow as guest writer for Asian Books Blog.  Ivy is a true Renaissance woman ...
Saturday 20 November 2021

SWF: Quick Round Up Part 2

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  Darling, You're Fabulous: An Hour With Tan France A most enjoyable hour long chat moderated very smoothly by Maya Menon with Queer Eye...
Thursday 25 March 2021

Elaine Chiew Chats With Catherine Menon about her startling debut Fragile Monsters

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Photo Credit: Paul Emberson Bio:   Catherine Menon is Australian-British, has Malaysian heritage and lives in London. Her debut short story...
Thursday 28 January 2021

Contemporary Voices: Elaine Chiew Chats with Jenny Bhatt, Author of Each of Us Killers

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  Photo Credit: Praveen Ahuja Bio: Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator, book critic, and the host of the Desi Books podcast. Her de...