It’s a wrap: Outgoing Singapore Writers Festival director Pooja Nansi will be missed

Pooja Nansi is the longest-serving festival director of the Singapore Writers Festival. PHOTO: ARTS HOUSE LIMITED
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SINGAPORE – Diversity and youth – these are the legacies of outgoing Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) director Pooja Nansi, whose five-year stint from 2019 to 2023 has transformed expectations of what the annual literary event can be.

The 26th edition of SWF, themed Plot Twist, closed on Nov 26 with an unmistakable sense of an end to an era.

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