SINGAPORE - Six novels will be chosen as finalists of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize next year, which will see the total prize money increase from $40,000 to $50,000.
The sixth edition of the award, which is Singapore's only prize for unpublished English-language novels, will be presented next January at a virtual ceremony instead of the usual hotel gala dinner, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Among them are Singaporean Sebastian Sim, 54, who won the 2017 prize for his satirical novel The Riot Act, and former finalists The New Paper news editor Andre Yeo, 48, author of 9th Of August, and Bruneian academic Kathrina Mohd Daud, 36, whose novel The Fisherman King was shortlisted last year and has just been released.
They are up against acclaimed names from the region such as Filipino writer Glenn Diaz, 34, whose 2017 novel The Quiet Ones won the Palanca Grand Prize and the Philippine National Book Award, and Thai writer Wipas Srithong, 50, whose novel Khon Khrae won the 2012 South-east Asia Write Award.
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