Jeremy Tiang

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Jeremy Tiang
Born (1977-01-17) 17 January 1977 (age 48) [1]
Singapore
Nationality Singaporean
Website jeremytiang.com

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]

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Career

In 2009, Tiang won the National Arts Council's (NAC) Golden Point Award for English fiction for his story Trondheim. [3] [1]

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years to write the novel but when he submitted the first draft to the council in 2016, the remainder of the grant was withdrawn – he had received $8,600 by then.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. [4] 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. [4] 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. [4]

In 2014 his play The Last Days of Limehouse about the London's first Chinatown in the East End of London was staged by the New Earth Theatre as a promenade performance in the Limehouse Town Hall. [5]

In 2018, he won the Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel State of Emergency (2017). [2] 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. [6]

In 2025 Tiang won the Obie Award in the category "Outstanding New Play" for his play Salesman之死, presented by Yangtze Repertory Theatre and Gung Ho Projects. [7]

Bibliography

Short story

Short story collections

Novels

Translation work

References

  1. 1 2 "Jeremy Tiang". goodreads.com. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 Li, Toh Wen (6 August 2018). "Jeremy Tiang wins Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction category for novel on leftist movements". The Straits Times . Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 Ho, Olivia (27 June 2017). "Jeremy Tiang completed debut novel without full grant from NAC". The Straits Times . Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Singapore author's book grant withdrawn due to content changes". TODAY. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  5. ↑ https://www.newearththeatre.org.uk/events/the-last-days-of-limehouse
  6. ↑ "The 2023 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature". The New Yorker . 13 September 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  7. ↑ "The 68th Annual Obie Awards Winners". Obie Awards. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
  8. ↑ "Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWWTV): Singapore, Myth, Memory with Jeremy Tiang and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow". 7 November 2017. Archived from the original on 8 September 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2018– via YouTube.
  9. ↑ "Coloratura". Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019– via www.oupress.com.
  10. ↑ Chan, Jackie (4 December 2018). Never Grow Up. Simon and Schuster. ISBN   978-1-9821-0722-2. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020– via www.simonandschuster.com.
  11. ↑ Patterson, Christopher B. (June 2014). "Review: "Island of Silence" by Su Wei-chen, Trans. Jeremy Tiang". Asiatic. Archived from the original on 8 September 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020– via www.academia.edu.
  12. ↑ "Durians Are Not the Only Fruit by Wong Yoon Wah". World Literature Today. 19 August 2014. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  13. ↑ "Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Consuming Love: Zhang Yueran's The Promise Bird". www.asiancha.com. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  14. ↑ "Ten Loves". BooksActually. Archived from the original on 8 September 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  15. ↑ Aurora Metro Books. Retrieved 10 June 2025
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