• Kirpal Singh

      Kirpal Singh (b. 1949, Singapore–) is a poet, literary and cultural critic, and university lecturer in English language and literature. He has written and published four collections of poetry and edited numerous literary journals and books. He was a founding member ...

    • Cyril Wong

      Cyril Wong Yit Mun (b. 1977, Singapore–) is an award-winning poet and writer. He clinched the National Arts Council’s (NAC) Young Artist Award in 2005 and is a two-time winner of the Singapore Literature Prize (2006; joint winner for 2016) for English poetry. Wong ...

    • Felix Cheong

      Felix Cheong Seng Fei (b. 1965, Singapore–) is a poet and recipient of the National Arts Council Young Artist Award for Literature in 2000. He has published three volumes of poetry: Temptation and Other Poems (1998), I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999) and Broken by ...

    • Lee Tzu Pheng

      Lee Tzu Pheng (b. 13 May 1946, Singapore–) is one of Singapore’s distinguished poets. A retired university lecturer, she has published in anthologies and journals internationally. Her three volumes of poetry, Prospect of a Drowning (1980), Against the Next Wave ...

    • Desmond Sim

      Desmond Sim Kim Jin (b. 1961, Singapore–) is a playwright, poet, short-story writer and painter. He is best known for his short stories and plays that he has penned and staged. His accomplishments include winning the Singapore Literature Prize for Poetry (Merit) ...

    • Literary Festivals in Singapore

      Literary festivals in Singapore play host to readers and writers alike, and include book festivals, writers’ festivals as well as language festivals. These events are not only platforms for promoting reading and authors, but also an appreciation for writing and ...

    • Lew Poo Chan (Dan Ying)

      Lew Poo Chan (b. 1943, Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaya), better known by her pseudonym Dan Ying, is a well-known poet in Chinese-speaking communities around the world. Her poetry has won a number of literary awards and has been translated into several languages. For ...

    • Alvin Pang

      Alvin Pang (b. 1972, Singapore–) is considered as part of a new breed of young Singapore poets that emerged in the 1990s. These new poets include Felix Cheong, Alfian Sa’at, Toh Hsien Min and Cyril Wong. Pang’s publications include two collections of poetry, Testing ...

    • Leong Liew Geok

      Leong Liew Geok (b. 1947, Penang, Malaysia–) is a renowned local poet. She was one of the 10 Singaporeans selected for American publisher W. W. Norton’s 2008 international anthology featuring 440 poems by 440 poets. The 1998 anthology that Leong edited, More Than ...

    • Wong Yoon Wah

      Wong Yoon Wah (b. 13 August 1941, Perak, Malaysia–) is one of the few Singaporeans who excel as an international poet, critic and scholar. Prolific in both creative and academic writing, Wong has published more than 20 collections of prose, poetry, and academic ...

    • Tan Swie Hian

      Tan Swie Hian (b. 5 May 1943, Pulau Halang, Indonesia–) is a multidisciplinary Singaporean artist known for his poetry, novels, paintings, calligraphy and sculptures. A highly esteemed artist, Tan has received multiple accolades both locally and internationally ...

    • Heng Siok Tian

      Heng Siok Tian (b. 1963, Singapore–) has published five volumes of poetry. An educator for more than 25 years, she received the National Day Honours for her long service with the Ministry of Education in 2015. She has been a stalwart of the Creative Arts Programme ...

    • Ho Poh Fun

      Ho Poh Fun (b. 1946, Singapore – d. 12 March 2018, Singapore) was a poet and writer. Her poetry collection, Katong and Other Poems, was published in 1994.

    • Boey Kim Cheng

      Boey Kim Cheng (b. 1965, Singapore–) is widely regarded as one of the most promising Singapore poets to emerge in the 1990s. Boey has published four collections of poetry. Three of his works, Somewhere-bound, Another Place and Days of No Name, have won awards. ...

    • Paul Tan

      Paul Tan Kim Liang (b. 1970–) is a poet and winner of the Singapore Literature Prize in 1993 and 1997 for his collections of poems.

    • Elangovan

      Elangovan (b. 1957, Singapore–) is a bilingual poet and playwright known for exploring controversial themes and the grimmer aspects of society. He was a teacher, arts administrator, freelance journalist, screenwriter, literary editor and the artistic director of ...

    • Literary awards and prizes in Singapore

      Singapore’s array of literary awards and prizes recognises writers and works of literary merit. The honours are applicable to works in all four official languages of Singapore – English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil – and genres such as poetry and drama. The official ...

    • Robert Yeo

      Robert Yeo Cheng Chuan (b. 1940, Singapore–) is a poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and librettist. He has written a novel, newspaper columns on the arts, as well as literary and theatre essays advocating the establishment of a distinctly Singaporean tradition ...

    • Khoo Seok Wan 邱菽园

      Khoo Seok Wan (¬¬邱菽园) (b. 10 November 1874, Fujian, China — d. 1 December 1941, Singapore) was better known in Singapore as a literary scholar and poet. In his youth, he was a strong supporter of the Reformist Movement in China and founded progressive newspapers ...

    • Edwin Thumboo

      Edwin Nadason Thumboo (b. 22 November 1933, Singapore–), Emeritus Professor at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, is widely regarded as the unofficial poet laureate of Singapore. He is best known for writing on national ...

       

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