Set in a welfare home named after the tunjuk langit trees of Choa Chu Kang, the novel follows elderly residents who have been left behind by their families as they face the threat of closure. Habeb's outrageous attempt to save the home brings out the residents' solidarity and the story's sharp criticism of how society treats old age.

Solidarity and ingenuity spark a fight to keep an elderly home alive.

A poetry collection built around gaze and response. It explores identity and memory by moving between the personal and the social.

A poetry collection that looks straight back at the feminine and refuses to flinch.

A Tamil-language work that uses a wooden elephant as a symbol to explore heritage, memory, and ties across generations. Allegory and lyricism are closely intertwined.

It shapes the tension between homeland and elsewhere into an allegory of inner conflict.

A study of the process and aesthetics of Malay creative writing in Singapore. It links the act of writing to the cultural background that shapes it.

A book for rethinking Malay literature from the inside out.

An experimental work of fiction that uses language and form to rebuild the relationship between a person and a place.

It lifts the memory of a vanished neighborhood with a voice that is light on its feet and full of feeling.

Part of a project that compiles “banished books” through a visual bibliography. It is an ambitious nonfiction art book that combines images and text as evidence.

It traces the history of destruction and resistance around books through image and language.

Against the background of the Malayan Emergency, memories of family rupture and political violence echo across generations. The novel tells the modern history of Singapore and Malaysia through multiple perspectives.

A nation’s division casts a long shadow over one family’s fate.

A Chinese-language fiction work that depicts social tension and the feeling of being on the front line in Singapore.

It looks at social tension from the front line of narrative.

It uses fragments of memory and everyday life to trace the overlap between urban experience and personal history in a Chinese-language context.

Daily memories gradually bring the shape of the city into view.

As a Malay-language novel based on a television series, it turns the memory of a dance club and the atmosphere of popular culture into fiction.

It gives novelistic shape to material that already carries the familiarity of television.

It captures young people moving between tradition and modernity in the city, rendered in Malay poetry.

It turns the oscillation between youth and urban life into poetic momentum.

Walking through Singapore’s supermarkets, the poems cut across consumer culture, desire, and alienation in a sequence of short pieces. The debut collection shifts the angle on urban life through ordinary shopping scenes.

Between the aisles of the supermarket, the city’s desire and loneliness rise into view.

Using Singapore’s landmarks and buildings as anchors, the poems weave together urban memory and cultural change. It is a Chinese-language poetry collection in which cityscape and personal feeling overlap.

It digs up the memories embedded in place names and buildings through poetry.

Blending essay, fiction, and family memory, it explores self-understanding, language, and the experience of the Eurasian community. From the position of Singapore’s “Others,” it reconsiders identity from the inside.

It turns the feeling of being labeled “other” into quiet self-exploration.

Liu Su’s prose quietly digs into personal experience through the texture of everyday feeling and memory. It gathers emotions and observations at the edge of the city into a soft, attentive voice.

It lifts the outlines of memory and feeling from fragments of everyday life.

It digs into the edges of the city and layers of memory through Chinese-language creative nonfiction.

It looks again at what lies on the boundary, in the shape of memory.

As an investigative work on Tamil literary history and newspaper culture, it revisits the role of G. Sarangapany and the Tamil Murasu.

It re-examines the intersection of Tamil literature and newspaper history from a contemporary perspective.

A debut short-story collection that sharply captures Singaporean urban life, desire, friction, and social unease.

Short fiction that reveals the friction hidden inside everyday Singapore.

A self-selected collection of Lin Gao’s microfiction that combines new work with revised earlier pieces, distilling human observation into miniature form.

Microfiction that concentrates precision, revision, and a sustained attention to people.

A Malay short-story collection that slices through social life with humor, observation, and a clear narrative edge.

Malay short fiction that captures the grain of social life.

Confirmed as a Tamil short-story collection, but no clear ISBN could be verified in public catalogs, so the identifiers are left blank.

No bibliographic identifier could be verified, but it is recorded as the 2014 SLP Tamil short-story winner.

A collection of 44 sonnets that playfully explore love, language, laughter, and the rhythm of Singlish.

Light-footed sonnets about love and Singlish.

A book that moves between death, cinema, ghostly narrative, microfiction, and prose poem, blurring the line between poetry and prose.

Crossing poetry and prose to trace the atmosphere of death and cinema.

A Malay poetry collection of 51 poems that deepens inward reflection through Sufi spirituality and a broad sense of human love.

An introspective Malay poetry collection shaped by spirituality and human compassion.

A practical leadership book shaped by Lim Siong Guan’s experience in public service and his thoughts on leadership for the next generation.

Leadership thinking grounded in public service experience.

A memoir and social history of Potong Pasir from 1955 to 1965, telling the story of kampong life and communal memory.

A memoir tracing kampong life and shared memory.

A literary history that traces the development of Singapore Tamil poetry and organizes its relationship to community and culture.

A history of Singapore Tamil poetry.

A Malay-language novel that follows a pilgrimage to Mecca and turns loss into a search for self-understanding.

What begins as a pilgrimage becomes a reckoning with loss and self-understanding.

A late poetry collection by Masuri SN that gathers 209 poems written between 1995 and 2001.

Through the mood of dusk, the collection traces late-life reflection and inwardness.

A saga that traces the history of a Eurasian family across four generations. Moving between Malacca and Singapore, it draws a broad portrait of communal memory.

The family river keeps folding past and present back into one another as it flows.

Set against the memory of a Eurasian family and community, the work links several short stories. It was treated as Soul Search when it won in 1998 and later appeared in print as The Seed from the Tree.

Family memory quietly holds each story in place.

A novel that uses black humour to chart the endpoint of a suffocating marriage and self-denial. It blurs the border between dream and reality while sharpening the sense of isolation.

Emotions pressed too long into confinement eventually take another shape inside the room.

Twelve short stories cut through everyday life in contemporary Singapore. By arranging the voices of young urban characters side by side, the collection captures both unease and intimacy in the city.

In spaces as narrow as a corridor, the whole pressure of urban life is packed together.

From a young man heading into National Service, the novel follows the sensations of being rooted and unrooted in Singapore. It builds a coming-of-age story by matching the city’s terrain to inner movement.

What the heart leaves behind and what remains on the land keep overlapping.

A Singapore poetry collection that layers movement through the city with the feel of rain.

In the rain, the city begins to take on another shape.

Nick, a Singaporean, travels through Vietnam and searches for his own outline in the space between reunion and movement. The novel has the feel of a travel diary and a coming-of-age story.

The road through Vietnam brings memory and reunion with it.

Centered on Yong, a boy living in a housing estate, the novel follows family strain, school pressure, and the fragile bonds of friendship. It is a Singapore coming-of-age story.

In the housing estate, a boy gradually learns the limits of what life will allow.

The Singapore Literature Prize records Pat Wong’s Going Home & Other Stories as a 1996 commendation title. Current bibliographic searches did not confirm a standalone ISBN-bearing edition.

The award record survives, but no standalone bibliography could be confirmed.

A collection of dramatic monologues that gives voice to the people who worked along the Singapore River. Through each speaker, the history, labor, and memory of the riverfront come into focus.

It brings the river’s memory to life through human voices.

A poetry collection inspired by experiences in the United States, quietly tracing movement, memory, exile, and the making of a self. Questions of place and belonging seep through its everyday language.

The feeling of displacement becomes quiet poetry.

A sequence of poems about Singapore’s void decks and the daily life that unfolds around them. In the quiet of a public space, communal memory and the texture of the city overlap.

The empty space beneath the housing block becomes a place of communal memory.

Through fragments about childhood, youth and age, the linked stories look at the distances between people and between a person and the self. They quietly map the invisible gaps inside daily life.

It crosses the distances between people one by one.

A Singapore novel that blends romance, adventure and fantasy around the mysterious figure of Eston. While it keeps the texture of contemporary life, the story slowly slips toward the uncanny.

Before the traveller can be known, the reader’s own fears are put to the test.

A short-story collection built around several women’s relationships, drawn with lightness around marriage, desire and everyday misalignment. Beneath the quick dialogue, instability keeps surfacing.

Intimacy and distance keep trading places within the same conversation.

This collection can be read as a poetry book concerned with what it feels like to be a Singaporean woman, together with family and cultural belonging. The title itself points toward self-knowledge through feeling.

Feeling itself becomes a clue to finding a place to belong.

A story about homosexuality, faith, family and self-acceptance in a conservative society. Its quiet provocation makes the internal conflict of the protagonist vivid.

Surrounded by glass walls, the only thing left to trust is one’s own voice.

This poetry collection traces memory through places and personal history. Desmond Sim’s urban sensibility and reflective voice overlap so that the landscape of what has been walked becomes part of the poem itself.

Where you have walked becomes part of your own history.

A poetry title recorded in the 1993 prize history, using the image of an endlessly full sea to look at longing and cyclical time. The compact repetition of the title leaves a quiet echo.

Like an unfilled sea, the words keep returning.

This short poetry title can be read as a study of walking, choosing a path, and the uncertainty that lies ahead. As its title suggests, it turns on the sensations of exploration and hesitation.

The road bends and carries the reader toward an unseen place.

A collection of three plays about people trapped by family, friends, buildings and themselves as they try to break free. Tension around a collapsed building adds to the push and pull between confinement and release.

A building can collapse long before the constraints inside people do.

A compact drama text in the context of Singapore English-language theatre. It uses observation and alertness to bring everyday tension into view.

Small disturbances gradually come into focus on stage.

Over the course of a single day, a young teacher named Suwen searches for her identity as a woman and an artist. The novel weaves family history and immigrant memory into a layered portrait of Singapore and of personal freedom.

Tracing a private life also becomes a way of unfolding the memory of a city.

Drawing on myths of mountains and spirits, the novel follows Shi Ying, a rescued child, as she searches for her origins. Encounters with her foster family and a village outsider lead her to question identity and belonging.

A girl who does not know where she comes from begins a journey that pushes beyond the village boundary.