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Winning the Singapore Literature Prize, what good is it?

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(Clockwise from top left) Author Amanda Lee Koe, cartoonist Sonny Liew, poet Joshua Ip and storyteller Roger Jenkins.

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SINGAPORE - Since Amanda Lee Koe's debut short story collection Ministry Of Moral Panic won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2014, it has gone places she never expected.
Germany, for example, where a translation of it was shortlisted for two awards. Soon, Turkey. Possibly, if talks succeed, the Arab world.
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