Taiwanese author Kuo Chiang-sheng and multi-hyphenate Indonesian artist Dee Lestari are also coming to town.
SINGAPORE – Hear from two-time Giller Prize winner and chair of the 2023 Booker Prize jury Esi Edugyan, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo and New York Times best-selling academic Cat Bohannon at the Singapore Writers Festival 2024.
The typically uproarious festival debate bears the motion This House Believes That Life In Plastic Is Fantastic, and has been moved from an opening event to a closing one. In the process, the researcher problematises the way medical science has treated the male body as the default and the female as “a minor tweak on a Platonic form”, while re-asserting the importance of the body in contemporary discourses of sex and gender.
A panel engages theatre practitioners in a discussion on multilingualism on the Singapore stage; there is a roundtable on traditional Chinese, Malay and Tamil poetry in Singapore; and four intercultural speakers engaged in art forms outside their ethnic spaces – a Malay Chinese calligrapher, an Indian xinyao composer-singer – help people envision what it means to inhabit these hybridities.
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