One of the many sessions at the Singapore Writers Festival. Photo: SWF
It's a bright Sunday morning at the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF). In a high-ceilinged, many-windowed room in The Arts House, the 200-year-old building that used to be the Old Parliament House and is now a multidisciplinary arts venue, a small crowd gathers.
It includes a group of excited middle-aged Malay women. Indeed, the majority of those who have gathered to hear Malaysian national laureate A. Samad Said speak are Malay. I assume that the handful of Chinese present are Malaysian – they will need to understand Malay as the session is in Malay, with no translator provided.
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