Jeremy Tiang (born 17 January 1977) is a Singaporean writer, translator and playwright based in New York City. Tiang won the 2018

Singapore Literature Prize The Singapore Literature Prize (abbreviation: SLP) is a biennial award in Singapore to recognise outstanding published works by Singaporean authors in any of the four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay and Tamil. The competition is organis ...

for English fiction for his debut novel, ''State of Emergency'', published in 2017.

Career

In 2009, Tiang won the National Arts Council's Golden Point Award for English fiction for his story ''Trondheim''. In 2016, his short story collection ''It Never Rains on National Day'' was shortlisted for the

. In 2010, Tiang's idea for his first novel, titled ''State of Emergency'' qualified for a grant by the National Arts Council. Under the Creation Grant Scheme, he would receive a total of $12,000. It took him seven years to write the novel but when he submitted the first draft to the council in 2016, the remainder of the grant was withdrawn – he had received $8,600 by then. At that time, Tiang was shocked as he was writing full-time and any additional money would be useful but decided to keep writing. His manuscript was subsequently shortlisted for the 2016

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Fiction Prize where he received a cash prize of $5,000. In 2018, he won the Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel ''State of Emergency'' (2017). The Singapore Book Council which established and managed the Singapore Literature Prize said that Tiang's win was a "unanimous decision" by the judges.

Bibliography

Short story

*''Trondheim''

Short story collections

*''It Never Rains on National Day'' (2015)

Novels

*''State of Emergency'' (2017)

Translation work

*''The Promise Bird'' – novel by Zhang Yueran *''Ten Loves'' – short story collection by Zhang Yueran *''Durians Are Not the Only Fruit'' – essays by Wong Yoon Wah *''Island of Silence'' – novel by Su Wei-Chen *''Unrest'' 《騷動》– 2002 Chinese novel by Singaporean Yeng Pway Ngon *''The Borrowed'' – Hong Kong detective novel by Chan Ho-Kei *''Never Grow Up'' – memoir by

Jackie Chan Fang Shilong (born 7 April 1954), known professionally in English as Jackie Chan and in Chinese as Cheng Long ( zh, c=成龍, j=Sing4 Lung4; "becoming the dragon"), is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker, martial artist, and stuntman known for ...

(Simon & Schuster, 2018) *''Coloratura'' – novel by Li Er (OU Press, 2019) *''Second Sister'' – Hong Kong detective novel by Chan Ho-Kei (Grove Atlantic, 2020) *'' Strange Beasts of China'' by

Yan Ge Yan Ge (, pinyin: ''Yán Gē'', born 1984) is the pen name of Chinese writer Dai Yuexing (, pinyin: ''Dài Yuèxíng''). Life and career Yan Ge was born Dai Yuexing in December 1984 in the Pixian district of Chengdu. She began writing at the a ...

(

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, 2020), (Melville House, 2021)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tiang, Jeremy 1977 births Living people Singaporean writers Chinese–English translators Translators to English Translators from Chinese Literary translators