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Article titles should follow the manner in which the subjects of the articles normally appear in English-language publications in Singapore. When persons do not usually use the words bin (Malay for "son of") or binte ("daughter of") in their names, these words should not be added (e.g., "Zubir Said", not "Zubir bin Said").
With the independence of Singapore in 1965, a new wave of Singapore writing emerged, led by Edwin Thumboo, Arthur Yap, Robert Yeo, Goh Poh Seng, Lee Tzu Pheng, Chandran Nair and Kirpal Singh [citation needed]. It is telling that many critical essays on Singapore literature name Thumboo's generation, rightly or wrongly, as the first generation ...
The S.E.A. Write Award, or Southeast Asian Writers Award, is an award that is presented annually since 1979 to poets and writers of Southeast Asia. The awards are given to the writers from each of the countries comprised in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations , though not all countries in ASEAN are represented every year.
In 2021, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism issued a Digital News Report, writing that Mothership was used by 42% of Singapore's population. [14]In the 2023 edition of the study, Mothership emerged as the most used online news source in Singapore, surpassing mainstream competitors CNA and The Straits Times.
The names of Singapore include the various historical appellations as well as contemporary names and nicknames in different languages used to describe the island, city or country of Singapore. A number of different names have been given to the settlement or the island of Singapore all through history, the earliest record may have been from the ...
This article deals with writing that deals with LGBT themes in a Singapore context. It covers literary works of fiction, such as novels, short stories, plays and poems. It also includes non-fiction works, both scholarly and targeted at the general reader, such as dissertations, journal or magazine articles, books and even web-based content.
Edwin Thumboo, born in colonial Singapore, Straits Settlements on 22 November 1933, was the eldest [citation needed] of eight children of a Tamil Indian schoolteacher and a Teochew-Peranakan Chinese housewife from a Singaporean merchant family. [2]
The Singapore Writers Festival is a literary event organised by the National Arts Council. [1] Inaugurated in 1986, the festival serves a dual function of promoting new and emerging Singaporean and Asian writing to an international audience, as well as presenting foreign writers to Singaporeans.