MPH Quill: The Singapore Writers Festival 2009 Issue

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Singapore Writers Festival 2009!

THIS EXCLUSIVE ISSUE of MPH Quill is produced specially for the Singapore Writers Festival 2009 and is sponsored by the National Arts Council of Singapore in association with MPH Publishing.

Look out for INTERVIEWS with John Boyne (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas), Maree Dawes, Mohammed Hanif (A Case of Exploding Mangoes, winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book), Chart Korbjitti, John Ajvide Lindqvist (Handling the Undead), Perihan Magden, O Thiam Chin (Never Been Better), Muhammad Haji Salleh, Miguel Syjuco (Ilustrado, winner of the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize), Edwin Thumboo, Mark Waid and Taichi Yamada (Strangers, In Search of a Distant Voice), as well as ESSAYS by Rajat Dass, Shamini Flint (Inspector Singh Investigates series), Kate McCaffrey, Wena Poon (Lions in Winter, The Proper Care of Foxes) and Naldo Rei.

Others appearing at the festival include Imtiaz Dharker, Leung Ping-kwan, Catherine Lim, Suchen Christine Lim, K.S. Maniam (In a Far Country, The Return, Between Lives), Chris Pash, Preeta Samarasan (Evening is the Whole Day), Haresh Sharma, Thando Sibanda, Wong Phui Nam, Xiaolong Qiu (Inspector Chen series), Geling Yan (The Banquet Bug) and Baha Zain, amongst others.