SWF's final weekend is on Nov 16 and 17.
Panellists Jonathan Chan, Ruby Thiagarajan and Shawn Hoo and moderator Daryl Lim at a Singapore Writers Festival 2024 panel.
But her proposal also came with a caveat in an industry of precarious margins: The arts authority must take care not to tie publishers’ and authors’ future funding to reviews or risk reviewers feeling they have a duty to hold back. Moderator Daryl Lim broached head-on a taboo of reviewing in a small community like Singapore’s when his opening salvo got panellists to publicly declare works they hate.
Chan diagnosed a prestige problem, pointing out that there is no equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in the Singapore Literature Prize, an underestimation of an art form that allows books a chance to “live again”. An earlier Conversation On Colombian Women’s Literature with author Pilar Quintana, organised by the country’s embassy, focused on the problem of representation in the South American nation.
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