Theophilus Kwek

Commonwealth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kwek's second Carcanet collection excavates histories of displacement, decolonisation, and development buried within Commonwealth, one of Singapore's oldest neighbourhoods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 134mm x 216mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 132g
• ISBN-13: 9781800174832
• ISBN-10: 1800174837
• Artikelnr.: 72882670

Autorenporträt

Theophilus Kwek is a writer, editor and translator based in Singapore. His work has been published in The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, The Straits Times, and elsewhere; and performed at the Royal Opera House. Two of his previous collections of poetry were shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize, while his pamphlet, The First Five Storms, won the inaugural New Poets' Prize. In 2023, he was the youngest writer and first Singaporean to be awarded the Cikada Prize by the Swedish Institute, for poetry that ' defends the inviolability of life' .