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The Singapore Writers Festival is a literary event organised by the National Arts Council.[1] Inaugurated in 1986, the festival serves a dual function of promoting new and emerging Singaporean and Asian writing to an international audience, as well as presenting foreign writers to Singaporeans.
SWF has hosted Singaporean writers Meira Chand, Cyril Wong, Suchen Christine Lim and You Jin, as well as international writers such as Steven Levitt,[2] Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman,[3] Bi Feiyu, David Mitchell, Bei Dao, F. Sionil Jose, Taichi Yamada, Andrew Motion, Alexis Wright and Marc Smith.
To date, it remains one of the few literary festivals in the world that is multi-lingual, celebrating works in Singapore’s official languages – English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil.
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- ^ "Singapore Writers Festival -- 111 wordsmiths and counting". CNN. Archived from the original on 21 October 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2009.