By Porter Anderson, editor-in-chief of @Porter_Anderson
Today’s (August 31) announcement of the winners of the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize, produced through the Singapore Book Council.
Wong Koi Tet) and Sithuraj Ponraj were this year’s two biggest winners, winning two prizes each. Wong Koi Tet was the winner of Fiction and Creative Nonfiction in Chinese, while Sithuraj Ponraj was the winner of Tamil Poetry and winner of Fiction Merit in Tamil.
The show has 12 winners, as well as 4 merit winners, and the content identified here includes poetry, artistic nonfiction and fiction. You will have several winners in a certain category, as this is Singapore’s program that awards paintings in the country’s 4 countries. Official languages: Chinese, English, Malay and Tamil.
And as so many other people in the global edition paint to produce virtual evocations of their usually physical events, it has created an online rite of more than an hour juggling 4 languages. It’s not a little feat. We’ll come with the rite for you below.
Ten of this year’s awards pass to the winners for the first time.
The program has also created a category of “preferred by readers”, anything that many pricing systems like to have as a way to interact with the customer base in a sense of participation in the program and the market. People voted in the reader selection category, still in all 4 languages of the program. The vote took place between 22 July and 17 August.
Each winner of the fundamental jury program receives 3,000 Singapore dollars (US$2,205), of which A$2,000 (US$1,470) is awarded to the winner on merit.
Readers’ favorite vote winners get 1,000 Singapore (US$735).
Another milestone highlighted through the organizers the fact that there were two winners in each of the 4 languages in the fiction category.
This shows not only the prescience of creating the format in 4 languages, but also an in-depth fiction market.
In addition, Marylyn Tan, the first woman to win the English poetry award for Gaze Back.
Poetry
Creative nonfiction
Fiction
Merit winners
Readers’ favorites
This year’s awards were the hashtag #WhyWeWrite, a crusade founded on writers’ motivation, and the virtual program preceded by six online roundtables on the subject #AtHomeWithSLP.
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