The winners of the Singapore Literature Prize 2024 were announced on September 10th at Victoria Theatre in a ceremony graced by Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
NTU faculty and alumni were prominently represented among the winners and shortlisted authors at the prestigious awards, organised by the Singapore Book Council.
Dr Prasanthi Ram, a lecturer at the NTU Language and Communication Centre, School of Humanities (SoH) and NTU PhD alumnus in Creative Writing, took home the Fiction in English prize for her work Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle (2023).
Award-winning Singaporean poet, Yong Shu Hoong, a part-time lecturer in NTU’s Creative Writing programme and former writer-in-residence, also won the prize for Poetry in English category for Anatomy of a Wave (2022).
In the Poetry in Chinese category, Assoc Prof Tan Chee Lay from NTU’s National Institute of Education was a joint winner for his collection Poems from the Eternal Summer (2022).
The shortlisted authors include Assoc Prof Hee Wai Siam, Coordinator, Minor in Chinese Creative Writing at SoH in both Fiction and Poetry in the Chinese category, as well as NTU alumna and author Nisha Mehraj, who was shortlisted in two categories – Fiction in English and Best Debut (English).
For more details on the Singapore Literature Prize, visit: Singapore Book Council.
