Jeremy Tiang

Jeremy Tiang (born 17 January 1977) is a Singaporean writer, translator and playwright based in New York City. Tiang won the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel, "State of Emergency" (2017).
Career.
In 2009, Tiang won the National Arts Council's Golden Point Award for English fiction for his story "Trondheim".
In 2016, his short story collection "It Never Rains on National Day" was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize.
In 2010, Tiang's idea for his first novel, titled "State of Emergency" qualified for a grant by the National Arts Council. Under the Creation Grant Scheme, he would receive a total of $12,000. It took him seven years to write the novel but when he submitted the first draft to the council in 2016, the remainder of the grant was withdrawn – he had received $8,600 by then. At that time, Tiang was shocked as he was writing full-time and any additional money would be useful but decided to keep writing. His manuscript was subsequently shortlisted for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize where he received a cash prize of $5,000.
In 2018, he won the Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel "State of Emergency" (2017). The Singapore Book Council which established and managed the Singapore Literature Prize said that Tiang's win was a "unanimous decision" by the judges.