Alfian Bin Sa'at

Alfian Sa'at

Tampines Primary School, Raffles Institution, and Raffles Junior College. During his two years at RJC, Alfian received the Kripalani Award for Outstanding Contribution to Creative Arts; Attended medical classes at the National University of Singapore but did not graduate

1998 - Alfian published his first collection of poetry, One Fierce Hour at the age of twenty-one. The book was acclaimed as "truly a landmark for poetry [in Singapore]" by The Straits Times, and Alfian himself was described by Malaysia's New Straits Times as "one of the most acclaimed poets in his country,a prankish provocateur, libertarian hipster"; 1999 - Published his first collection of short stories, Corridor, which won the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award. Seven of the short stories from the collection have since been adapted for television. In 2001, he published his second collection of poetry, A History of Amnesia, which was hailed by The Straits Times as "one of the most powerful collections by a Singaporean" in addition to being shortlisted for a Kiriyama Asia-Pacific Book Prize. Alfian won both the inaugural National Arts Council-Singapore Press Holdings Golden Point Award for Poetry in the same year, as well as the National Arts Council's Young Artist Award for Literature; 2000 - Alfian's plays, written in both English and Malay, have received broad attention in both Singapore and Malaysia. They have also been translated into German and Swedish, and have been read and performed in London, Zurich, Stockholm, Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. His first play was produced when he was 19, and he has had a long association as a playwright with theatre group The Necessary Stage as well as with Teater Ekamatra, a Malay theatre group known for articulating minority concerns in Chinese-majority Singapore; Currently the resident playwright of theatre group W!LD RICE; 2015 - Nadirah was selected by The Business Times as one of the "finest plays in 50 years" alongside productions by Goh Poh Seng, Michael Chiang and Haresh Sharma and others; 2016 - It was reported that sex, violence, blood, gore, a play he co-wrote, and his short story collection Malay Sketches is on the reading list of the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London, while the University of York has his poem "Singapore You Are Not My Country" and West Virginia University his selected poems on their reading lists. In particular, the University of York's Dr. Claire Chambers noted that this was because Alfian "introduces non-Anglophone words and concepts, and puts together words in an expressive portmanteau style"

Kripalani Award for Outstanding Contribution to Creative Arts 1995; Commendation Award by the Malay Language Council for Causeway 1998; Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award for Corridor 1999; Golden Point Award for Poetry 2001; Young Artist Award for Literature 2001; Life! Theatre Awards for Best Original Script for Landmarks: Asian Boys Vol. 2 2005; FRONT Award 2006; Life! Theatre Awards for Best Original Script for Nadirah 2010; Life! Theatre Awards for Best Original Script for Kakak Kau Punya Laki (Your Sister's Husband) 2014

English, Malay

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