Jeremy Tiang Explained

Jeremy Tiang
Birth Date:1977 1, df=y[1]
Birth Place:Singapore
Nationality:Singaporean

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 for English fiction for his debut novel, State of Emergency, published in 2017.[2]

Career

In 2009, Tiang won the National Arts Council's (NAC) Golden Point Award for English fiction for his story Trondheim.[3]

In 2016, his short story collection It Never Rains on National Day was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize.

In 2010, Tiang's idea for his first novel, titled State of Emergency qualified for a grant by the NAC. 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years to write the novel but when he submitted the first draft to the council in 2016, the remainder of the grant was withdrawn – he had received $8,600 by then.[4] At that time, Tiang was shocked as he was writing full-time and any additional money would be useful but decided to keep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 Epigram Books Fiction Prize where he received a cash prize of $5,000. In 2017, during a Parliament of Singapore's session, Non-constituency Member of Parliament, Dennis Tan, questioned why NAC withdrew the funding, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Grace Fu, replied that the book was not what was mutually agreed upon and hence the withdrawal of subsequent funds. On Tan's further asking whether Tiang failed to deliver the book as promised and what is the failed fulfilment, Fu did not further elaborate on details.

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.

In 2023 Tiang chaired the jury for the National Book Award for Translated Literature.[5]

Bibliography

Short story

Short story collections

Novels

Translation work

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jeremy Tiang. goodreads.com. 10 August 2018. 10 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180810105621/https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5989330.Jeremy_Tiang. live.
  2. Web site: Toh Wen. Li. Jeremy Tiang wins Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction category for novel on leftist movements. The Straits Times. 10 August 2018. 6 August 2018. 10 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180810111640/https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/jeremy-tiang-wins-singapore-literature-prize-in-english-fiction-category-for-his. live.
  3. Web site: Olivia. Ho. Jeremy Tiang completed debut novel without full grant from NAC. The Straits Times. 10 August 2018. 27 June 2017. 10 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180810111042/https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/author-completed-novel-without-full-grant. live.
  4. Web site: Singapore author’s book grant withdrawn due to content changes . 2023-11-23 . TODAY . en.
  5. Web site: The 2023 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature . September 14, 2023 . September 13, 2023 . .
  6. Web site: Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWWTV): Singapore, Myth, Memory with Jeremy Tiang and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow. YouTube. 10 August 2018. 7 November 2017. 8 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200908173032/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZBgWtxNs8. live.
  7. Web site: Coloratura. www.oupress.com. 2 August 2019. 2 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190802085124/https://www.oupress.com/books/15083104/coloratura. live.
  8. Web site: Never Grow Up. 4 December 2018. www.simonandschuster.com. 4 August 2020. 16 June 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200616191817/https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Never-Grow-Up/Jackie-Chan/9781982107222. live.
  9. Review: "Island of Silence" by Su Wei-chen, Trans. Jeremy Tiang. Christopher B.. Patterson. Asiatic. www.academia.edu. 4 August 2020. 8 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200908173020/https://www.academia.edu/7661877/Review_Island_of_Silence_by_Su_Wei_chen_Trans_Jeremy_Tiang. live.
  10. Web site: Durians Are Not the Only Fruit by Wong Yoon Wah. 19 August 2014. World Literature Today. 2 August 2019. 2 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190802085123/https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2014/september/durians-are-not-only-fruit-wong-yoon-wah. live.
  11. Web site: Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Consuming Love: Zhang Yueran's The Promise Bird. www.asiancha.com. 2 August 2019. 2 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190802085136/https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/1353/372/. live.
  12. Web site: Ten Loves. BooksActually. 2 August 2019. 8 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200908173017/https://www.booksactuallyshop.com/products/ten-loves. live.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Jeremy Tiang".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.