Fiction In Translation

BooksActually's Gold Standard 2016 is a highly anticipated new annual anthology from indie bookstore BooksActually, comprising short fiction by the...

Translated by Natascha Bruce Singapore, late 1980s. As women gain power and independence, what’s an insecure guy to do? Lonely Face is the story of...

Translated by Jeremy Tiang When the fervour of revolution is gone, what remains? Four leftist teenagers in 1950s Malaya dedicate themselves to over...

Translated by Jeremy Tiang In the 1910s, thirteen-year-old Leong Ping Hung comes to Singapore from China to seek his fortune. Decades later, he is ...

Featuring a selection of short stories written between the 1960s and 2000, this collection charts Yeng Pway Ngon's evolution in subject matter and ...

translated by Tan Dan Feng Featuring new translations of previously untranslated Chinese short stories, Memorandum maps out seven decades of Sinoph...

translated by Alfian Sa'at Former political detainee and professor Pak Karman loses his wife in a car accident. The intensity of his mourning cause...

translated by Nazry Bahrawi A rainbow is glimpsed in the enveloping darkness of Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s stories. Precious because it is mostly fleet...

translated by Shafiq Selamat Adi loves his life in the kampung: climbing the ancient banyan tree, watching ten-cent movies with his friends, fetchi...

translated by Alfian Sa'at From Isa Kamari comes a masterful tale of success and failure, which has been translated for the first time into English...

Translated by Sim Wai Chew Hok Leong only knows one thing about his future: he does not want to become an office boy buying coffee for his superior...

translated by A.R. Venkatachalapathy War is looming when Anbarasan arrives in Singapore from Tamil Nadu in the 1940s. Stirred by charismatic Indian...

Translated by Shelly Byrant You Jin brings to her travel writing the same wit evident in her fiction. Whether she is trekking through the Amazon ra...

Translated by Solehah Ishak Pak Suleh was the penghulu of Pulau Sebidang, one of the influential village headmen of the islands of the South. Force...

Translated by Jeremy Tiang In the late 1970s, a young Singaporean writer arrives in Jeddah with an infant son. She encounters a strange and often h...

Translated by Howard Goldblatt The stories in Under the Bed, Confusion sketch a vast array of characters: from an aging coffee shop assistant strug...

Translated by Howard Goldblatt The Chinese protagonist of Cultural Medallion recipient Yeng Pway Ngon's novel, Trivialities about Me and Myself, is...

Translated by Sylvia Li-chun Lin A chain-smoking student with a violent past. A girl with a weakness for rare turtles. A boy who sees a raging fire...

translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin In this Singapore Literature Prize-winning collection of stories, an aging Japanese ex-soldie...