Singapore Writers Festival 2024: Can writers on world literature’s margins be recognised?

SINGAPORE – Writer Li Zi Shu, touted by her readers as a potential Nobel laureate for literature

after South Korean writer Han Kang’s win,

does not think the prize would be awarded to a Malaysian writer working in the Chinese language like herself.

On the second weekend of the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF), which takes place from Nov 7 to 18, writers and translators from Asia commented on what it means to be recognised at the periphery of literary centres.