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Singapore Unbound celebrates the launch of Jeremy Tiang’s novel State of Emergency (World Editions) and his translation of Hai Fan’s story collection Delicious Hunger (Tilted Axis Press).

Jeremy Tiang is a fiction writer, playwright, and translator of over thirty books from Chinese. His novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize, and his play Salesman之死 won an Obie Award for Outstanding New Play. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in Flushing, Queens.

State of Emergency, by Jeremy Tiang (World Editions)
Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize
Informed by years of painstaking research, Jeremy Tiang’s debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist movements and political detentions in Singapore and Malaysia. It follows an extended family from the 1940s to the present day as they navigate the choppy political currents of the region. State of Emergency questions whether we can grasp the truth after the fact. And yet, in the very telling of its interlocking stories, it reaffirms the importance of trying.

Delicious Hunger, by Hai Fan, translated by Jeremy Tiang (Tilted Axis Press)
Winner of 2024 English PEN Translates Award
From 1976 to 1989, Hai Fan was part of the guerrilla forces of the Malayan Communist Party. These short stories are inspired by his experiences during his thirteen years in the rainforest. Delicious Hunger is a book about the moments in and between warfare, when hunger is so palpable it can be tasted. Deftly translated by Jeremy Tiang, Hai Fan's stories follow a group of people who chose to fight for a better world and, in the process, built their own.