Day: March 5, 2025

Several awards were given out on Tuesday to celebrate the achievements of individuals and organisations who have gone above and beyond in their pursuit of excellence. These include the President’s Science and Technology Award for Young Scientists, which was awarded to a team of researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The award, which was introduced in 2009, honours scientists aged below 35 who have demonstrated outstanding scientific achievement and contributed towards the development of science, technology and engineering in Singapore.

The Singapore Literature Prize (SLP) has reopened for submissions of works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry in the country’s four official languages. Organiser the Singapore Book Council (SBC) added three new categories, including the first-ever translation award for the biennial prize.

In the English category, comic-book author Sonny Liew’s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye won for the first time. SLP will also recognise the work of debut authors and translate into Chinese for the first time, opening up a new audience for Singaporean literature.

Other winners included Straits Times journalist and poet Akshita Nanda’s debut novel Nimita’s Place, about two women navigating societies in India and Singapore. This is the second SLP for Nanda, who previously won in 2023’s inaugural English Poetry category for her collection of poems titled Unfinished Business. Meanwhile, Ng Yi-Sheng and Wong Koi Tet shared the top prize for Chinese fiction with their respective speculative short story collection Lion City and the chronicle of the lost housing estate Dakota Crescent, which Nong wrote about in her novel.

Also among the winners was the book of essays On Writing: Reflections and Advice for a New Generation, by literary critic and essayist Cyril Wong, which won the 2023 Singapore Book Award for Non-Fiction. Described as “a deeply personal, reflective, and thoughtful essay collection” by the judges, it offers “poetic and penetrating insights on writing, reading and the arts”.

The final prize of the night was the President’s Science and Technology Award for Emerging Researchers, which went to a team from the University of Illinois at Chicago led by principal investigator and co-founder Professor Emmanuelle Guigueno. The team’s research focuses on using artificial intelligence to understand complex patterns in natural and social systems. Their work has already helped to develop better vaccines for malaria, identify genes associated with Alzheimer’s disease and create a system to track and prevent health problems.

The finalists were recognised at a ceremony at the SBC, which was broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube. Britain’s Prince William, who launched the Earthshot Prize in 2020 with a £10 million ($15 million) commitment from his Royal Foundation charity, attended the event and praised the solutions of all 15 finalists for demonstrating hope despite global challenges. These ranged from an Indian maker of solar-powered dryers to a soil carbon marketplace and groups working to make electric car batteries cleaner and restore Andean forests and deter illegal fishing.

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