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

Edition 4 (1995)

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Winners

3 people
Roger Vaughan Jenkins ろーじゃー ぼーがん じぇんきんず Winner

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.

122 pages
poetrySingapore Riverlabormemory
Boey Kim Cheng ぶーい きむ ちぇん Honorable Mention

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.

88 pages
poetrymigrationmemorybelonging
Colin Cheong こりん ちょん Encouragement Award

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.

69 pages
poetrypublic housingurban spacememory