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Singapore Writers Festival: ‘You’ve got to do the hard work’: Panellists on minority representation
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(From left) Writers Dustin Thao, Chloe Gong and Jessica Bellamy, and moderator Zaris Azira talking about the new issues that the younger generation faces.
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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.
