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Heritage food book The Way Of Kueh takes home top prize at Singapore Book Awards

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Fall Baby


Written by Olivia Ho, originally published in Straits Times

Aug 13, 2020

Kueh led the way at the Singapore Book Awards on Thursday (Aug 13), as Christopher Tan's heritage food book The Way Of Kueh won Book of the Year at the annual industry awards by the Singapore Book Publishers Association (SBPA). The awards recognise the best in local book publishing. Best Literary Work went to Fall Baby by Indonesian writer Laksmi Pamuntjak, a novel about a controversial artist who discovers that her birth father died a political prisoner. It was published locally by Penguin Random House South-east Asia.



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