Dentist’s book wins top prize


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Titled The Campbell Gardens Ladies’ Swimming Class, the as yet unpublished manuscript was selected as the winner of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2023 on Thursday night. It is the debut work of dentist Vrushali Junnarkar (pic), an Indian national currently living in Singapore.

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