S182. CANCELLED: The Master's Tools: Singaporean Novelists on Writing in the Colonizer's Language
Status: Not Accepted
Saturday, March 7, 2020
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Participants
Rachel Heng is the author of the novel Suicide Club. Her short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and Prairie Schooner's Jane Geske Award and has appeared in Glimmer Train, McSweeney's Quarterly, Guernica, and elsewhere. She is a fiction fellow at the Michener Center for Writers.
Jeremy Tiang has translated more than 20 books from Chinese—most recently Lo Yi-Chin's Far Away. He also writes and translates plays. His novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize. He is the managing editor of Pathlight and a member of translation collective Cedilla & Co.
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow won the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize 2019 and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She is also the co-author of the nonfiction title Singapore: A Biography and coeditor of In Transit: An Anthology from Singapore on Airports and Air Travel.