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Singapore Writers Festival: The key to observing is to live ordinarily and cheaply, says Malaysian cartoonist Lat
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Malaysian cartoonist Lat is one of the keynote speakers at 2023’s Singapore Writers Festival.
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SINGAPORE – Malaysian cartoonist Lat’s first experience of the power of art was not in a museum, but in the daily newspapers – specifically the comic strips.
At age six, before he knew how to read, Lat would look at the pictures while his friends read the dialogue to him.
