Fiction Shortlist
Lion City
A man learns that all the animals at the Zoo are robots. A secret terminal in Changi Airport caters to deities. A prince falls in love with a crocodile. A concubine is lost in time. Singapore disappears.
These are the strange tales of Lion City, the first collection of short fiction by award-winning poet and playwright Ng Yi-Sheng.
Infused with myth, magical realism and contemporary sci-fi, Lion City invites you to see Singapore in a new and darkly fabulous light.
Author
Ng Yi-Sheng
Ng Yi-Sheng is a poet, fictionist and activist. His debut poetry collection last boy won the Singapore Literature Prize, which he followed up with A Book of Hims, its spiritual sequel.
His other works include Loud Poems for a Very Obliging Audience and a novelisation of Eating Air. He co-edited GASPP: A Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose and recently completed his MA from the University of East Anglia’s creative writing programme. Lion City is his first fiction collection.