Alvin Pang
Singaporean writer
Alvin Pang (Chinese: 冯啟明; pinyin: Féng Qǐ Míng; born 1972, Singapore) is a Singaporean poet, editor and writer. He received the Young Artist Award (Literature) in 2005 by the National Arts Council Singapore. He holds a First Class Honours degree in English literature from the University of York. He was a University of Iowa International Writing Program Fellow in Writing (2002), and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow in 2022. In 2020, he was awarded a PhD in Writing from RMIT University, and appointed to the honorary position of Adjunct Professor of RMIT University in 2021. For his contributions, he was conferred the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2007, and the JCCI Foundation Education Award in 2008. He is listed in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English (2nd Edition).
Works
His first volume of poems, Testing the Silence (Ethos Books, 1997), was listed as one of the Top Ten Books of 1997 by The Straits Times and was short listed for the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) Book Award in 1998/9. City of Rain (Ethos Books, 2003), his second volume of poetry, was the only Singaporean book to be named to the Straits Times Top Ten List for 2003.
His two 2012 volumes of poetry--Other Things and Other Poems (Brutal:Croatia), Teorija strun ["String Theory"] (JKSD:Slovenia), and When the Barbarians Arrive (Arc publications, UK)--are the first full volumes of poetry by a Singaporean poet to be published in their respective countries.
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