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Singapore Literature Prize しんがぽーるぶんがくしょう

Edition 3 (1994)

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Winners

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Tan Mei Ching たん めいちん Honorable Mention

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.

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Stella Kon すてら こん Honorable Mention

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.

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David Leo でいびっど りお Encouragement Award

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.

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Denyse Tessensohn でにーす てっせんそん Encouragement Award

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.

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Andrew Koh あんどりゅー こー Encouragement Award

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.

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