Singapore fiction book prize goes to novel about women swimming in a condo; judges include Malaysian top actress Michelle Yeoh

The winning Campbell Gardens Ladies’ Swimming Class is the debut work of dentist Vrushali Junnarkar, an Indian national currently living in Singapore. - PHOTO: EPIGRAM.SG via The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE, Feb 10 (The Straits Times/ANN): A panel of five judges, including Everything Everywhere All At Once star Michelle Yeoh, chose a novel about a group of Indian women learning to swim in a Singapore condominium as the winner of an annual literary award for local fiction.

Titled The Campbell Gardens Ladies’ Swimming Class, the as yet unpublished manuscript was selected as the winner of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2023 on Thursday night.