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Singapore author Balli Kaur Jaswal on why she won’t write romantasy and the Aware saga
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Daryl Qilin Yam (left) and Balli Kaur Jaswal at Capella Singapore.
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SINGAPORE – Singapore author Balli Kaur Jaswal has experimented with subject and genre in her five published novels, but she is almost certain she will never write in the romantasy mode.
The revelation comes with her first venture into young adult fiction, The Unpronounceable, scheduled for release in October 2026. An Indian-Australian teenager with a “really ridiculously difficult to pronounce name” follows the path determined by her pragmatic parents to mathematics and science school until she discovers art through a painting.
