This month, our regular column Lion City Lit unearths a new word – an acronym really - to collectively bring together what’s going on in Singapore. Literally. Ken Hickson reports…
You’ve heard of Ab-Fab, we’ve got AB-CAB!
Beyond Authors and Books as objects of pleasure and learning, we’ve uncovered haunts for writers – Cafes – so when you put all that into a literary melting-pot with Awards and Bookstores, AB-CAB emerges!
Come along for a ride in the Lion City:
A is for Authors, first and foremost: Who’s in the news?
How about home-grown Simon Vincent? A multi-media journalist who’s come up with a first - the extremely creative non-fiction work, The Naysayers Book Club, walking off with the Book of the Year at the Singapore Book Publishers Association annual industry awards. (This could of course come under B for Books and A for Awards too, but we’ll try not to repeat ourselves.)
We first met Simon when he played the role of moderator with four young women authors at an Epigram event a couple of months’ back. We’ve read the book and found it totally engaging. Real insight into people who matter in Singapore. What’s next Simon?