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Singapore Writers Festival 2024: The many sides of library pioneer Hedwig Anuar and other authors
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The notebooks from 1945 to 1946 of Mrs Hedwig Anuar, the first Singaporean director of the National Library, were on display during the launch of her post-war writings at the Singapore Writers Festival.
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SINGAPORE – Those who know the National Library’s former director Hedwig Anuar, 95, as a pioneer of Singapore’s library system or women’s rights activism will glimpse a different side of her in her newly published early writings.
The launch of Vestiges: Essays 1945-1946 (2024), a slim volume of post-war writings from when Mrs Anuar – then Hedwig Aroozoo – was only 17, took place on a rainy Nov 9 morning at the National Library Building as part of the opening weekend of the Singapore Writers Festiva
