A censorship row escalated when judges of a literary prize quit over the national library’s plans to destroy three children’s books deemed to be pro-homosexual.
In a statement, the three judges of the non-fiction category of the biennial Singapore Literature Prize condemned a National Library Board (NLB) decision last week to pulp three titles that went against its “pro-family” stance.
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