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Singaporean literature. 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 ...
The Siege of Krishnapur. The Singapore Grip is a novel by J. G. Farrell. It was published in 1978, a year before his death. In 2015, The Straits Times ' Akshita Nanda selected The Singapore Grip as one of ten classic Singapore novels. She wrote, "Neatly weaving in snappy, comic summaries of Singapore history as well as the commercial and ...
S. Saint Jack. The Scent of the Gods. Scorpion Orchid. The Serpent's Tooth (novel) The Shrimp People. The Singapore Grip. South by Java Head.
OCLC. 762332. If We Dream Too Long is a novel written by Singaporean writer Goh Poh Seng. This debut novel was completed in 1968 though it was first published in 1972 by Singapore's Island Press, a press formed by Goh to self-publish his first novel. [1] It was republished by Heinemann in 1994 under the Writing in Asia Series and NUS Press in ...
Heartland is the first novel written by Daren Shiau. [1] Heartland deals with the paradox of rootedness and rootlessness of Singaporeans born after the Japanese Occupation. [1] The book received the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1998, [2] together with Alfian Sa'at's Corridor. Heartland was named by Singapore's English daily ...
Catherine Lim Poh Imm (Chinese: 林宝音; pinyin: Lín Bǎoyīn, born 21 March 1942) is a Singaporean fiction author known for writing about Singapore society and of themes of traditional Chinese culture. Hailed as the "doyenne of Singapore writers", [1] Lim has published nine collections of short stories, five novels, two poetry collections ...
Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore. First edition. Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore is a collection of seventeen short stories by Singapore author Catherine Lim. It was first published in 1978 in Singapore by Heinemann [ 1] under the Writing in Asia Series and earned the writer many accolades. It is Lim's first published book of fiction.
How We Disappeared was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize, and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the HWA Debut Crown (a prize for historical writing). [6] [7] In 2022, How We Disappeared was included on the Big Jubilee Read, a list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors produced to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum ...