Attributes of Recent Award-Winning Books in Singapore

Singaporean journalist, broadcast personality, and National Reading Movement Ambassador Michelle Martin was a judge for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2016 and 2017. Two prize-winning books that have made an impact on Martin include the 2016 Young Adult winner The Rock and the Bird , and the 2016 English Fiction winner The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye . Martin explains why these two books stood out to her among all of the competition. The Singapore Literature Prize is a biennial competition...