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SingLit 50 best works

What are the 50 greatest works of Singapore literature written in or translated into English? The Sunday Times convenes a panel of literary experts to assemble a list, arranged here by publication chronology from the 19th century to this year

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1. Hikayat Abdullah (1849)

By Munsyi Abdullah, translated by A.H. Hill (1949)
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