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Singaporean poet Theophilus Kwek is the youngest winner of the Cikada Prize, a prestigious Swedish literary prize for East Asian poets.
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SINGAPORE – At 29, poet Theophilus Kwek learnt that he had won the Cikada Prize, a prestigious Swedish literary prize for East Asian poets.
Kwek had set foot into the Nordic country only for a day trip, and his work had not been translated into Swedish.
