04 November 2019
The Straits Times
Media Coverage
In a time when Singapore’s literature is thriving, Programme Leader of LASALLE’s MA Creative Writing programme Dr Darryl Whetter asks an apt question in this opinion editorial: “When a country claims its writers, how much of that citizenship is real or fiction?”
Through examples of local writers who have gained critical success with their works, either wholly situated in Singapore and replete with Singlish, or not located in Singapore at all and hence divested of the local tongue, Darryl illustrates how books are meant to unite and writers should not feel pressured to write in any particular language.
Photo courtesy of Singapore Writers Festival.
