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Location: Singapore  Impact statement: Shaking up Singaporean poetry with an uncompromising attitude and a no holds barred approach Poet Marylyn Tan is breaking down all sorts of barriers in Singapore’s literary scene. The first woman to win the Singapore Literature Prize for English poetry in its 28 year history, she is known for her iconoclastic, witty, outspoken take on subjects including gender politics, and consistently shows a willingness to take on taboo subjects, many of them sexual and religious. A former stand-up comic, she is also the founder of arts collective Dis/Content. Phot...

Tejaswini Niranjana is currently professor and head, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and visiting professor with the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. She is the author of Siting Translation: History, Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context, as well as Mobilizing India: Women, Music and Migration between India and Trinidad. Her translation of Jayant Kaikini’s No Presents Please was jointly awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Tejaswini Niranjana My Brilliant Friend by Elen...

He has captured dramatic sunsets, danced with the locals and dived deep into the sea. The pandemic may have stopped this cinematographer in his tracks for now, but scenes from his faraway travels play back in a flash. Kartik Vijay - who shot the award-winning Malaysian film The Garden of Evening Mists - picks his most wanderlust-worthy destinations. Cuba For its vibrant local colour "It’s my dream setting for a shoot. Old Havana is a visual feast, with its bold colours and vintage feel. Walking through its cigar-scented alleys, you can virtually inhale the music in the air," says Vijay, add...

channel for the latest stories and updates. While some may underestimate the capabilities of our local film industry, the people behind the Malaysian historical-fiction film The Garden of Evening Mists have proved that locally made films are competitive on the global stage. The film has officially bagged the Best Feature Film award at the Asian Academy Creative Awards (AACA) during it’s virtual gala show last week. In securing the title, The Garden of Evening Mists won against four other film nominations in the same category, such as Mariposa (Indonesia), Stranger’s House (Myanmar), Hell...