Haresh Sharma Singapore

Bio
The Necessary Stage’s resident playwright, Haresh Sharma, has written more than 60 plays staged in Singapore and abroad. A Bachelor of Arts graduate from the National University of Singapore, he also holds a master’s degree in playwriting from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He has two published collections of plays, Still Building (1994), which was awarded the Singapore Literature Prize and the Singapore Book Prize, and This Chord and Others (1999). His play, Off Centre, was published in 2000 and later selected as a literature text for GCE ‘N’ and ‘O’ levels. Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 6 (2007) presents an extensive investigation of Haresh’s works over the past 20 years.


What book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
"I would like to snuggle UnderCovers with Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature. Edited by Angelia Poon, Philip Holden and Shirley Geok-lin Lim, it was recently published by NUS Press. The Anthology is divided into 3 sections and covers a breadth of Singapore writing from pre-colonial times to the present. If I can take a break from reality and go UnderCovers, this book would allow me a glimpse of Singapore’s literary landscape and an escape into the rich and varied imaginations of our writers past and present."

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