SINGAPORE – Two panels on Sunday inadvertently spent a great deal of time talking about minority representation in fiction, a topic some writers were visibly more comfortable tackling than others.
A panel on “modern anxieties” plaguing writers framed the issue of diversity as a source of anxiety for authors today. Writers Jinny Koh and Judith Huang said they had felt pressure to include non-Chinese characters in their books, which they were disinclined to do.
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