Jeremy Tiang

Jeremy Tiang
Born (1977-01-17) 17 January 1977 (age 47)[1]
Singapore
NationalitySingaporean
Websitejeremytiang.com

Jeremy Tiang (born 17 January 1977) is a Singaporean writer, translator and playwright based in New York City. Tiang won the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel, State of Emergency, published in 2017.[2]

Career

In 2009, Tiang won the National Arts Council's (NAC) Golden Point Award for English fiction for his story Trondheim.[3][1]

In 2016, his short story collection It Never Rains on National Day was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize.

In 2010, Tiang's idea for his first novel, titled State of Emergency qualified for a grant by the NAC. Under the Creation Grant Scheme, he would receive a total of $12,000. It took him seven years to write the novel but when he submitted the first draft to the council in 2016, the remainder of the grant was withdrawn – he had received $8,600 by then.[4] At that time, Tiang was shocked as he was writing full-time and any additional money would be useful but decided to keep writing. His manuscript was subsequently shortlisted for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize where he received a cash prize of $5,000.[4] In 2017, during a Parliament of Singapore's session, Non-constituency Member of Parliament, Dennis Tan, questioned why NAC withdrew the funding, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Grace Fu, replied that the book was not what was mutually agreed upon and hence the withdrawal of subsequent funds.[4] On Tan's further asking whether Tiang failed to deliver the book as promised and what is the failed fulfilment, Fu did not further elaborate on details.[4]

In 2018, he won the Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel State of Emergency (2017).[2] The Singapore Book Council which established and managed the Singapore Literature Prize said that Tiang's win was a "unanimous decision" by the judges.

In 2023 Tiang chaired the jury for the National Book Award for Translated Literature.[5]

Bibliography

Short story

  • Trondheim

Short story collections

  • It Never Rains on National Day (2015)

Novels

  • State of Emergency (2017)[6]

Translation work

  • Bearing Word - by Liu Liangcheng (Balestier Press, 2023)
  • Rouge Street - three novellas by Shuang Xuetao (Metropolitan Books, 2022)
  • Cocoon - by Zhang Yueran (World Editions, 2022)
  • Ninth Building – by Zou Jingzhi (Honford Star, 2022) - longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023
  • Strange Beasts of China - by Yan Ge (Tilted Axis Press, 2020), (Melville House, 2021)
  • The Wedding Party - by Liu Xinwu (Amazon Crossing, 2021)
  • Faraway - by Lo Yi-Chin (Columbia University Press, 2021) - longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize 2022
  • The Artisans: the Legacy of the Ancestors of Shen Village - by Shen Fuyu (Astra House, 2022)
  • The Secret Talker - by Geling Yan (HarperVia, 2021)
  • Second Sister – Hong Kong detective novel by Chan Ho-Kei (Grove Atlantic, 2020)
  • Costume - 2015 novel by Yeng Pway Ngon (Balestier Press, 2019)
  • Coloratura – novel by Li Er (OU Press, 2019)[7]
  • Never Grow Up – memoir by Jackie Chan (Simon & Schuster, 2018)[8]
  • The Dragon Ridge Tombs - by Tianxia Bachang (Delacorte Press, 2018)
  • The City of Sand - by Tianxia Bachang (Delacorte Press, 2017)
  • Unrest 《騷動》– 2002 Chinese novel by Singaporean Yeng Pway Ngon[3]
  • The Borrowed – Hong Kong detective novel by Chan Ho-Kei
  • The Book of Mountains and Rivers – essays by Yu Qiuyu (CN Times Books, 2015)
  • Island of Silence – novel by Su Wei-Chen[9] (Etnos Books, 2013)
  • Durians Are Not the Only Fruit: Notes from the Tropics – essays by Wong Yoon Wah[10] (Epigram Books, 2013)
  • Death by Perfume: Stories – collection by You Jin (Epigram Books, 2015)
  • The Promise Bird – novel by Zhang Yueran (Math Paper Press, 2012)[11]
  • Ten Loves – short story collection by Zhang Yueran (Math Paper Press, 2012)[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Jeremy Tiang". goodreads.com. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b Li, Toh Wen (6 August 2018). "Jeremy Tiang wins Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction category for novel on leftist movements". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  3. ^ a b Ho, Olivia (27 June 2017). "Jeremy Tiang completed debut novel without full grant from NAC". The Straits Times. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d "Singapore author's book grant withdrawn due to content changes". TODAY. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  5. ^ "The 2023 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature". The New Yorker. 13 September 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWWTV): Singapore, Myth, Memory with Jeremy Tiang and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow". 7 November 2017. Archived from the original on 8 September 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2018 – via YouTube.
  7. ^ "Coloratura". Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019 – via www.oupress.com.
  8. ^ Chan, Jackie (4 December 2018). Never Grow Up. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-9821-0722-2. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020 – via www.simonandschuster.com.
  9. ^ Patterson, Christopher B. (June 2014). "Review: "Island of Silence" by Su Wei-chen, Trans. Jeremy Tiang". Asiatic. Archived from the original on 8 September 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020 – via www.academia.edu.
  10. ^ "Durians Are Not the Only Fruit by Wong Yoon Wah". World Literature Today. 19 August 2014. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  11. ^ "Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Consuming Love: Zhang Yueran's The Promise Bird". www.asiancha.com. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  12. ^ "Ten Loves". BooksActually. Archived from the original on 8 September 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2019.