KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 — Malaysian Karina Robles Bahrin emerged the winner of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2022, besting three other finalists from Singapore for the RM77,777.50 in prize money.— beat Nisha Mehraj, 36; Ng Ziqin, 19; and Tan Lip Hong, 57, for first place. live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube, Karina said that the win was an unexpected one, as it was her first attempt at writing a novel.
“I’d like to firstly congratulate all the other shortlisted finalists. I think their books sound fantastic and I’m really looking forward to reading them. And to Epigram, a big thank you to them for continuing to push on and still have this award available to South-east Asian writers despite challenges of the current times.
“Last but not least of course, thank you to the judges for selecting my story,” said Karina, who also runs a hotel, restaurant, farm and community storytelling initiative on the island of Langkawi. How The Man In Green Saved Pahang, And Possibly The Worldtells the story of Jasmine Leong, a workaholic who is dead set on becoming the next chief executive of acompany owned by the wealthy Leong clan. But one day, she discovers that she is actually Malay.
The panel of judges consisted of big names in the publishing industry, including Amir Muhammad, publisher of Buku Fixi in Malaysia; T. Sasitharan, co-founder and director of Intercultural Theatre Institute in Singapore; Association of Women for Action and Research president Margaret Thomas; Nanyang Technological University professor Shirley Chew; and Epigram Books publisher Edmund Wee.
The Epigram Books Fiction Prize was established in 2015 as an initiative to promote contemporary Singapore creative writing and reward excellence in Singapore literature.
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