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About the Event
(Re)writing our Heritage with Charmaine Leung & Josephine Chia
Sunday, 19 March, 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Happening at F1 Pit Building, Level 2 (Blue Room), 1 Republic Blvd, Singapore 038975
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Join authors Charmaine Leung (17A Keong Saik Road) and Josephine Chia (Goodbye My Kampong! Potong Pasir, 1966 to 1975), as they explore how they keep personal and cultural heritage alive through their writing journeys.
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About the Speakers
Charmaine Leung is a Singaporean writer who had lived in Hong Kong for 15 years. She first became passionate about the literary arts while working as a theatre manager in the Jubilee Hall of Raffles Hotel in the 1990s. Her writing focuses on human relationships, and the dynamics in these relationships brought about by change. 17A Keong Saik Road (2017), a creative non-fiction book, is Charmaine's first published book. The book was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2018, and has since been featured by The Straits Times, The Business Times, and Lianhe Zaobao. She has also anchored Mediacorp's Tuesday Report: Streets of Memory, a documentary on Chinatown and Keong Saik Road.
Josephine Chia likes to capture vignettes of Singaporean history, life and fables in her books. She also writes about her rich Peranakan culture and heritage. Josephine writes both fiction and non-fiction. Altogether, she has published thirteen books.
When she was living in UK, she was a finalist for UK’s Ian St James Award and other UK literary prizes. She has a UK Masters in Creative Writing.
After her return back to Singapore to live, she won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2014 for her non-fiction memoirs, Kampong Spirit/Gotong Royong, which is based on the attap village she grew up in the 1950s. Goodbye My Kampong is a sequel to this.
Her children’s novel, Queen of the Sky, was shortlisted for the Scholastic Asian Book Award 2018. In 2019, she won the Singapore Publishers Book Award for her first YA Novel, Big Tree in a Small Pot.
Josephine is also a Creative Writing mentor on various writing programmes as she has a passion to nurture the future writers of Singapore. Several of her students are now published writers.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
F1 Pit Building, 1 Republic Boulevard, Singapore, Singapore
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