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Alvin
Pang

Years: 2022

Alvin PANG, PhD is a poet, writer, editor, anthologist, translator and researcher whose broad creative practice spans over two decades of literary activity in his native Singapore and elsewhere. Featured in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English, his writing has been translated into more than twenty languages worldwide, including Swedish, Macedonian, Croatian, Chinese and French. For contributions to literature, he has received Singapore’s Young Artist of the Year Award, the Singapore Youth Award and the JCCI Education Award. In 2021, he was appointed to the honorary position of Adjunct Professor of RMIT University. His books include the bestselling What Gives Us Our Names (2011), When the Barbarians Arrive (2012), What Happened: Poems 1997-2017 (2017) and Uninterrupted time (2019).

Alvin PANG, PhD is a poet, writer, editor, anthologist, translator and researcher whose broad creative practice spans over two decades of literary activity in his native Singapore and elsewhere. Featured in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English, his writing has been translated into more than twenty languages worldwide, including Swedish, Macedonian, Croatian, Chinese and French. For contributions to literature, he has received Singapore’s Young Artist of the Year Award, the Singapore Youth Award and the JCCI Education Award. In 2021, he was appointed to the honorary position of Adjunct Professor of RMIT University. His books include the bestselling What Gives Us Our Names (2011), When the Barbarians Arrive (2012), What Happened: Poems 1997-2017 (2017) and Uninterrupted time (2019).

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