Edition 9 (2004)

Poetry (Chinese)Poetry (English)Poetry (Malay)Poetry (Tamil)Prose (Chinese)Prose (English)Prose (Malay)Prose (Tamil)

Winners

20 people

Hwee Hwee Tan たんふいふい Winner

288 pages

Felix Cheong ふぇりっくすちょんぐ Nominee

Suchen Christine Lim すーちぇんくりすてぃんりむ Nominee

Alfian Sa'at あるふぃあんびんさーっと Nominee

Claire Tham くれあたむ Nominee

Yeng Pway Ngon えいばいあん Winner

Chia Hwee Pheng ちあひゅーふぇん Nominee

Guan Ming ぐぁんみん Nominee

Mohamed Latiff Mohamed もはめっどらてぃふもはめっど Winner

Abdul Ghani Hamid あぶどぅるがにはみっど Nominee

A Wahab HJ Hamzah えーわはぶえいちじぇーはむざ Nominee

Isa Kamari いさかまり Nominee

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.

182 pages

pilgrimagelossself-discoveryfaithMalay-language literature

Masuri SN ますりえすえぬ Nominee

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.

248 pages

poetry collectionreflectionlate-life writingfaithSingapore literature

Rohani Din ろはにでぃん Nominee

Ma Elankannan まえらんかんなん Winner

S Uthuman Ghani えすうつまんがに Nominee

K. T. M. Iqbal けーてぃーえむいくばる Nominee

Krishnasamy Iyer Kanagalatha くりしゅなさみあいやーかながらた Nominee

Murugathasan むるがたさん Nominee

Palanisamy Subramanian すぶらーぱらにさみすばらまにあん Nominee