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Showing posts with label Singaporean writers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singaporean writers. Show all posts
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 ...
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 October 2020

What’s The Deal With Graphic Novels? Elaine Chiew Chats with Melanie Lee and Arif Rafhan on their collaboration for Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma.

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  Photo courtesy of Difference Engine About the Writer:   Melanie Lee is the author of the picture book series  The Adventures of Squirky th...
Wednesday 29 April 2020

Translating literary works from the Malay world, Nazry Bahrawi in conversation with Nicky Harman

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Dr Nazry Bahrawi, Singapore University of Technology & Design What aroused your interest in translation, and what was the first...
Friday 17 April 2020

Stephanie Chan aka Stephanie Dogfoot talks about her stirring collection Roadkill for Beginners, slam poetry, and her different performing hats.

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Courtesy of Author Bio : Stephanie Chan’s poetry has been described as “conjuring a kind of matter-of-fact magic, full of warm, eve...
Friday 3 April 2020

Polymath Desmond Kon talks about his near-death experience, religion and philosophy & writing in The Good Day I Died

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Bio: Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé is a Singapore writer. He is the author of an epistolary novel, a quasi-memoir, two lyric essay mono...
Wednesday 3 July 2019

O Thiam Chin Talks to Elaine Chiew about Vampires, Teenage Girls and His Sixth Book of Short Fiction, Signs of Life.

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Photo courtesy of the Author and Alan Siew O Thiam Chin is the author of five collections of short fiction: Free Falling Man , Never Be...
Wednesday 26 June 2019

Nicky Harman interviews Jeremy Tiang, Singaporean writer, translator and playwright

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Photo credit: Edward Hill Nicky: When you were growing up, what were the first Chinese-language stories you came across, and what drew y...
Monday 3 June 2019

Eminent Historian Professor Wang Gungwu converses with Elaine Chiew on his autobiography, Home Is Not Here

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Photo courtesy of NUS Press From the book jacket: Wang Gungwu is one of Asia’s most important public intellectuals. He is best-known...
Saturday 4 May 2019

Melissa De Silva talks to Elaine Chiew about 'others', discovering her ancestry in Malacca, and making pineapple tarts.

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Melissa De Silva at her writing residency at Hikayat, Penang's Georgetown, May 2019. Photo courtesy of William Tham. Biography: ...
Tuesday 30 October 2018

Elaine Chiew Talks to Ng Yi-Sheng, author of Lion City

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Photo Courtesy: Epigram Books   Ng Yi-Sheng is a Singaporean poet, fictionist, playwright, journalist and LGBT+ activist. He has just ...
Monday 6 August 2018

In Celebration of Books: The Singapore Literature Prize 2018

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Nominee Books on Display The Singapore Literature Prize, which carries a cash award of S$10,000 for each winner in each language ...
Monday 9 April 2018

Asian Contemporary Voices: Interview with Kirstin Chen, author of Bury What We Cannot Take

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Courtesy of Susan Deragon Kirstin Chen's new novel, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A, March 2018), has been na...