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Born in Bombay, Rudyard Kipling spent his formative years in Shimla. One can find many characters & sites of Shimla in the pages of his numerous stories, novels & poems.

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first female poet to win the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize for her 2018 debut collection, Gaze Back. The collection, which she describes as the “lesbo Singaporean trans-genre witch grimoire you ...

, 31, has published five full-length collections of poetry, most recently Commonwealth (2025). His Circle Line (2013) and Giving Ground (2016) were both shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize.