Poet. Director of product development, promotion and sales, UNESCO Publishing, Paris, 1971. Born 1945, Kerala. Educ: Raffles Institution; University of Singapore (MSc Marine Biology).He was responsible for the publication of the pioneering Moongate and Mooty series of children's books in Singapore during the 70s.

Publications
(editor) Singapore Writing, Woodrose Publications, 1977
(editor) Short Stories from Africa and Asia, 1978
(poetry) Once the Horsemen and Other Poems, 1972
(poetry) After the Hard Hours, This Rain, Woodrose Publications, 1975

Prizes and awards
1973 Winner of the New Nation Short Story Competition


Ng Yi-Sheng graduated from Columbia University, USA where he majored in Comparative Literature and Writing. His poems have been published in the poetry anthologies First Words, onewinged, No Other City and Love Gathers All, as well as the journals the2ndRule, QRLS, Softblow, Quarto, Asian Journal and Queer.

In 1998, he won first prize in the NUS Poetry Competition and in 2003, fared similarly at the Writers' Week Poetry Slam. In October 2006, he published his first collection of poetry, Last Boy, for which he won the Singapore Literature Prize 2008, English category.


Noor Hidayat writes short stories. Two anthologies of his short stories have been published--Memburu Angin and Destinasi. His poems are also published in Puncak Sembilan and Puisi-Puisi Nusantara.


Nury Vittachi was once hired as a comedian to entertain Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his guests at a dinner party. He made him laugh out loud twice (not an easy job with a man like that!!!).

He was live on BBC World TV this morning talking about a news article he wrote. In the coming months he'll be featured on two Mediacorp TV programmes as well as the Straits Times.

He has done countless TV/radio spots in the past year and has had regular shows/segments on CNN and the BBC.

In addition to his popular weekly column in the Far Eastern Economic Review, his writings have appeared in Time Magazine, The Guardian and more than a dozen international publications. He has appeared at scores of conferences, and written more than 1,000 commentary columns for the South China Morning Post.

But most of all Nury Vittachi, 43, is Hong Kong's bestselling English language author. Vittachi has more than 100,000 books in print, and is presently celebrated for his popular humor/crime series The Feng Shui Detective, the first international novel series set in modern-day Singapore. Movie rights have been sold.

He has written two books for teens-to-adults (age 15 up), about a Singapore detective: The Feng Shui Detective and The Feng Shui Detective Goes South, and has a new book for six- to nine-year-olds called Robot Jnr and a book for early teens (10-15) called Dead Eric Gets a Virus, both coming out in early November.

Vittachi has an unusual background. He was "refugeed" out of war-torn Ceylon to Singapore as a child in the 1960s. He later moved to London, then Hong Kong. Vittachi is married to an Englishwoman and they have three adopted Chinese children. The tri-colour family has been nicknamed "The Benettons" by the media.