The Singapore Literature Prize program honors work in the four official languages of the island nation: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil.
Singapore Book Awards 2020: A Dessert Guide Wins Book of the Year
The 2020 Singapore Book Awards include three newly added digital-publishing categories including audiobook, ebook, and digital marketing.
Singapore Names 2020 Book Award Finalists, Adds Digital Categories
Recognizing digital publishing and reading in Singapore, the Book Publishers Association’s awards this add ebooks, audiobooks, and digital marketing.
Coronavirus Impact: Singapore Book Council Opens an Illustrators’ Gallery
The annual Asian Festival of Children’s Content–itself postponed to October–this year takes its illustration show online with 13 nations’ illustrators represented in the curated collection.
Coronavirus: Singapore’s Fest Postpones; Rathbones’ Prize Is Digital; Javits as a Hospital
The COVID-19 pandemic’s rapid expansion prompts the cancellation of the 2020 Asian Festival of Children’s Content in Singapore, and the UK Rathbones Folio Prize ceremony goes online.
Coronavirus: International Publishers Make COVID-19 Research Content Freely Available
Research houses and scholarly publishers and associations are pooling their content for professional and public access free of charge.
Mediacorp Series Based on Wattpad’s ‘Slow Dancing’ Announced in Singapore
Announced at the 20th anniversary Asia TV Forum and Market, ‘Slow Dancing’ is the Wattpad-Mediacorp partnership’s first green-lighted production.
Singapore’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content: Taking Kids’ Lit Seriously
The program at next week’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content focuses ‘multicultural stories and diverse themes’ and features speakers from several continents.
Singapore’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content Plans 10th Edition in September
Themed on diversity, the program–unusual for its mix of professionals and parents–has Myanmar as its focus and an illustrators’ show for the public.
Wattpad in Asia: Singapore’s Mediacorp at APOS; Manila’s Pasion-Flores at Anvil
Amid Wattpad’s April shower of deal announcements, Singapore’s Mediacorp signs on for screen development, and the Philippines’ Andrea Pasion-Flores talks about Anvil’s new co-produced imprint.