Etchings of Legacy

UPDATED ON: 7 Nov 2021

Please note that Melanie Mununggurr, guest speaker for Etchings of Legacy, will not be attending today's session at 12pm.

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Join Audrey Chin, Melanie Mununggurr and Ramya Jirasinghe and explore the legacies each generation inherits and carries on. Can you transfer guilt, pleasure or obligation? Do your ancestor’s struggles become yours? Does a nation’s history become your own? Are these stories learnt or etched onto bone?

This programme is co-presented with Sing Lit Station, and is part of the 2021 WrICE residency. The 2021 WrICE residency is co-presented by Sing Lit Station, RMIT University non/fictionLab and Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, EdUHK.

Writers / Presenters

Melanie Mununggurr

Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe

Ramya is the author of There’s an Island in the Bone (winner of the 2011 State Literary Joint Award), Rhythm of the Sea, Trinity, and When Life Touches Life. Her second poetry collection, Love Poems from a Frangipani Garden, was published by the Mica Press, UK, in 2018.

Audrey Chin

Audrey Chin, a Southeast Asian, is interested in the spaces where faith and culture intersect. Her writing has been published in Singapore, India, the UK, and the US. She has been shortlisted thrice for the Singapore Literature Prize and is a Fellow of the 2017 International Writers Programme in Iowa.

Moderator

Nazry Bahrawi

Nazry Bahrawi is a literary translator, critic and academic. He translates to introduce Anglophone readers to the rich tradition of Bahasa literature. Trained in comparative literature, Nazry specialises in the study of non-material cultures through literary texts and films of the Malay Archipelago as part of the Indian Ocean cultural sphere. He is an editor-at-large at Wasafiri magazine and the essay & research editor for Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA) journal.

SINGAPORE WRITERS FESTIVAL

UPDATED ON: 7 Nov 2021

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SINGAPORE WRITERS FESTIVAL