Unspoken burdens: reflections on ‘Kavadi’
The People’s Voice: Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
Resolution by Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
Melissa De Silva’s The Gift: Continuing the Thread
Nightswimming in Arthur Yap’s ‘nightjar’
The Art of Detachment
Prophetic Vision of Next Week’s Grain Consumption Patterns, by Samuel Lee
Nightjar by Arthur Yap
The Gift by Melissa De Silva
The Ant and His Ocean by Yeng Pway Ngon
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Kavadi by Latha
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Resolution by Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
A poem with a sci-fi twist becomes a graphic short story.
In our final instalment of little red comma, we have Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s seminal poem about change and saving humanity with a sci-fi twist, translated from Malay and transformed into a graphic short story.
Listen to a reading of the poem in Malay by Norisham Osman:
Contributed by:
Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
Mohamed Latiff Mohamed is one of the most prolific writers in the Singapore Malay literary scene. His many accolades include the Montblanc-NUS Centre for the Arts Literary Award (1998), the SEA Write award (2002), the Tun Seri Lanang Award, Malay Language Council Singapore, Ministry of Communication, Information and Arts (2003), the National Arts Council Special Recognition Award (2009), the Cultural Medallion (2013), and the Singapore Literature Prize in 2004, 2006 and 2008. His works revolve around the life and struggles of the Malay community in post-independence Singapore, and have been translated into Chinese, English, German and Korean. Two of his novels have been translated into English as Confrontation (2013) and The Widower (2015).
Acknowledgement:
Presented by Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, produced by Tusitala and commissioned by National Arts Council.
Translated by Zakaria Ali
Originally published by Ethos Books
Concept by Farihan Bahron
Audio production by Artwave Studio
Illustrated by Ross Monday
