Winner: O’s first full-length novel, Now That It’s Over, was published by Epigram Books after he won the publisher’s inaugural fiction prize. Photo: Straits Times
Singaporean writer O Thiam Chin is an avid runner who runs one full marathon every year. It is fitting then that the 38-year-old’s circuitous route to literary success has been a long, and at times arduous, journey.
He barely scraped a pass for English in secondary school, was rejected several times when he applied for writing jobs and made short-lived forays into filmmaking and poetry writing.
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