Alvin Pang

Alvin Pang (b.1972) is a poet, writer and editor from Singapore. His poems have been translated into fifteen languages, and has appeared in major festivals and publications worldwide. A Fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program (2002), his books include Testing the Silence (1997), City of Rain (2003), What Gives Us Our Names (2011) and Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore (2009). He was Singapore's Young Artist of the Year for Literature in 2005, and received the Singapore Youth Award for Arts and Culture in 2007. His most recent volumes of poetry include Other Things and Other Poems (Brutal:Croatia) and Waiting for the Barbarians (Arc Publications,UK), both published in 2012.

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