List of Singaporean

Writers
Ms. Clarisse Lim Moncayo BSBA-1A
Reporter
Alfian Sa’at is a prolific Singaporean playwright,
poet and fiction writer. He was born on July 18,
1977 and he graduated as the top Malay student
nationally, winning a Mendaki scholarship and the
Prime Minister’s Book Prize thrice.

Alfian Sa'at
 Alfian Sa’at’s Work
Books:

● Malay Sketches (2012)

● Corridor(1999)
● One Fierce Hour (1998)
● Cooling Off Day (2012)
● A History of Amnesia (2001)
● The Invisible Manuscript (2012)
● Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History (2021)
● Alfian Sa’at Collected Plays Three: Naridah , Parah, Your Sister’s Husband , Geng Rebut Cabinet
(GRC) (2019)
● A Manifesto for Arts Funding (2019)
● The Asian boys trilogy, dream play, landmark, happy endings (2010)
● The optic trilogy, fugitives, homesick, sex violence. blood. Gore (2010)
● Mike: Lim Tzay-Chun Singapore (2005)
Gopal Baratham was a Singaporean writer and
neurosurgeon. He was born on September 9, 1935 and
graduated at The University of Edinburgh, University of
Malaya, Barts and The London School of Medicine and
Dentistry.

Gopal Baratham
 Gopal Baratham’s Work
Books:
● A candle or the sun (1991)
● Moonrise, Sunset (1996)
● The Collected Short Stories of Gopal Baratham (1981)
● The caning of Michael Fay (1994)
● The City of Forgetting: The Collected Stories of Gopal Baratham (2001)
● People make you cry and other stories (1988)
● Memories that Glow in the Dark (1995)
● Love Letter and Other Stories (1988)
● Figments of Experience (1981)
● Beads in a Sutra: An Autobiography of Gopal Baratham (1935-2002)
Don Bosco is a writer and publisher of
children’s fiction books from Singapore.
He was born on June 1971. He founded
Super Cool Books, a publishing company
with interest in fantasy and mystery
stories for children and young adults..

Don Bosco
 Don Bosco’s Work
Books:
● December 7, 2013: Thor the Greatest (fiction)
● July 23, 2013: Diary of Young Justice Bao – The Case of the Grand Fish (fiction)
● February 15, 2013: Ghostly (non-fiction)
● October 27, 2012: The Peranakan Princess (fiction)
● October 27, 2012: The Immortal Nightingale (fiction)
● 1 July 14, 2012: School of Magical Stories
● June 11, 2012: Fantasy & Friends (Volume 1)
● July 14, 2012: School of Magical Stories (non-fiction)
● October 27, 2012: Sherlock Hong, Book 1: The Immortal Nightingale
● October 27, 2012: Sherlock Hong, Book 2: The Peranakan Princess
● September 2012: Time Talisman, Book 1: The Secret of Monk's Hill
● September 2012: Time Talisman, Book 2: Newton's Curse

Paperbacks:

● July 23, 2013: Diary of Young Justice Bao, Book 1: The Case of the Grand Fish
● February 15, 2013: Ghostly
● October 27, 2012: Sherlock Hong, Book 1: The Immortal Nightingale
● October 27, 2012: Sherlock Hong, Book 2: The Peranakan Princess
Kamaladevi Aravindan is an award-winning bilingual
(Tamil and Malayalam) writer and playwright, whose
writings have been published in India, Canada, Malaysia
and Singapore. She was born in Malaysia and moved to
Singapore after her marriage.

Kamaladevi Aravindan
 Kamaladevi Aravindan’s Work
Books:

Sembawang : A Novel (September 24, 2020)

 Colin Cheong Wye Mun is a Singapore
writer and novelist. He was born in 1965
and graduated from the National
University of Singapore in 1988 with a
degree in English. He has written and
edited nearly 30 books, four of which have
won national awards. He won the Singapore
Literature Prize in 1996 for his novel,
Tangerine.

Colin Cheong
 Colin Cheong’s Work
● The Stolen Child (1989) - NBDCS Highly Commended Award 1990
● Poets, Priests & Prostitutes (1990)
● Blinken, James (1991)
● Life Cycle of Homo Sapiens, Male (1992)
● Seventeen (1996)
● Pictures of the Unsaid (1996)
● Void Decks and Other Empty Places (1996) - Singapore Literature Prize
Commendation 1995
● For Gail (1996)
● Tangerine (1997) - Singapore Literature Prize 1996
● Living on Pryston (1998)
● The Man in the Cupboard (1999) - Singapore Literature Prize 1998; adapted
into a TV movie for the series AlterAsians II
● Polite Fiction (2011)
● The Verifiable (2011)
● McKenzie's Question (2011)
● School of the arts Literature review paper exercise (2011)
● Earthly Locks (2012)
 Felix Cheong is a Singaporean author, poet and fiction
writer. He was born on 1956 and graduated with a
Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in English Literature from the
National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1990.

Felix Cheong
 Felix Cheong’s Work
Two young adult fiction books:

The Call From Crying House and its sequel The Woman In The Last Carriage.
 Felix Cheong’s Work
Three volumes of poetry:

Temptation and Other

Poems (1998) Broken by the Rain
I Watch the Stars Go Out (2003)
(1999)
Christine Chia is a Singaporean poet and author.
She was born in 1979. She is the writer of The Law
of Second Marriages (2011) and Separation: a
History (2014).

Christine Chia
 Grace Chia is a Singaporean writer, poet,
journalist and editor. She was born in 1973. She
has published numerous books of poetry, fiction
and non-fiction, including a novel.

Grace Chia
 Grace Chia’s Work

Womango (1998)
Cordelia (2012) Every Moving Thing
that Lives Shall be
The Arches of Gerrard Food (2016)
Street (2021)
The Wanderlusters: A
Novel (2016)
Michael Chiang is a prolific playwright and
screenwriter in Singapore. He was born on
October 27, 1955. He is known as "Singapore's
most famous and successful playwright". From
1990 to 2009, Chiang was the editorial director
of Mediacorp Publishing, which publishes 8
Days.

Michael Chiang
 Michael Chiang’s Work
Books:

Private Parts & Other

Play Things: A Play Things: The
Collection of Popular Complete Works :
Army Daze: From Real
Singapore Comedies 1984-2014
Blur to Real Men :
(1994) The New Army Daze
Michael Chiang's Hit
(1992)
Play (1987)
 Tania De Rozario is a, poet, fiction writer and
visual artist. She was born on February 20, 1982.
She generally emphasizing themes of gender,
sexuality, loving and losing.

Tania De Rozario
 Tania De Rozario’s Work
Books:

And the Walls Come Tender Delirium:

Crumbling Down Somewhere Else, Another You Poems (2013)
(2018)
(2016)
 Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesian-born
Singaporean novelist and writer. She was born
in 1988. Her award-winning short fiction has
appeared in literary magazines and anthologies
in Singapore, Australia, the UK, and the US.

Clarissa Goenawan
 Clarissa Goenawan’s Work

Rainbirds: A Novel (2018) Rainbirds LIB/e (2021)

The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida
(2020)
 Goh Poh Seng is Singaporean dramatist,
novelist, doctor and poet, was born in Kuala
Lumpur, British Malaya in 1936. He was
educated at Victoria Institution in Kuala
Lumpur, received his medical degree from
University College Dublin, and practiced
medicine in Singapore for twenty-five years.

Goh Poh Seng

 Goh Poh Seng’s Work
● If We Dream Too Long (1972)
● The Immolation (1977)
● A Dance of Moths (1995)
● As Though the Gods Love Us (2000)
● Tall Tales and Misadventures of a Young Westernized Oriental Gentleman (1950)
● The Girl from Ermita & Selected Poems (1961-1998)
● Dance with White Clouds: A Fable for Grown-ups (2001)
● Bird with One Wing: A Sequence of Poems (1982)
● Gate of Heavenly Peace (1990)
Gwee Li Sui is a poet, a graphic artist, and a
literary critic from Singapore. He was born on
August 22, 1970. He graduated from the
National University of Singapore with a First-
Class Honours degree in English Literature
and was awarded the NUS Society Gold
Medal for Best Student in English.

Gwee Li Sui
 Gwee Li Sui’s Work

Myth of the Stone (1993)

The Other Merlion and Friends
(2015) Death Wish (2017)
Haikuku (2017)
Who Wants to Buy an Expanded Edition of Who Wants to Buy of Book of Poems?
a Book of Poems? (2015) (1998)
 Suffian Hakim bin Supoano is a Singaporean
media professional, satirist and writer known for his
novels, Harris bin Potter, The Stoned Philosopher
and The Minorities. He was born on July 24, 1986.
He is an alumnus of Saint Joseph's Institution.

Suffian Hakim
 Suffian Hakim’s Work
Books:

Harris Bin Potter and the

Stoned Philosopher The Keepers of Stories
(2015) (2021) White Coat
Tales (2021)
The Minorities (2017)
 Raymond Han is a late baby
boomer who lives in Hougang in
Singapore. He has worked as a
banker, an editor, novelist and a
teacher.

Raymond Han
 Raymond Han’s Work
● Mystery of the Battle Box (October 5,2009)
● Spice of the Life: Singapore Short Stories (July 5, 2013)
● Essential Guide to O-Level English Composition (April 23,2014)
● The Godell Prism (April 29, 2014)
● Where the Wind Blows (July 20, 2017)
● The Sun Gawks (September 15,2017)
● Dawn Breaks (December 7, 2017)
● The Mind Clones Trilogy (December 9, 2017)
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Clarisse Lim Moncayo_ BSBA-1A