Alfian Sa'at

Alfian bin Sa'at was born on 18 July 1977 in Singapore. As a secondary school pupil, he twice took part in a creative writing programme at the National University under the playwright Haresh Sharma, and a company staged one of his plays very early on. He entered medical school in 1996 and left without graduating in order to write full time. Poet, short story writer and translator of Singapore Malay writers, he became the resident playwright of the company Wild Rice, received the Young Artist Award for literature in 2001, and has written several dozen plays focused on the politics and history of his country.

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• PoetryOne Fierce HourAlfian Sa'at · 1998Literature