Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh a judge for the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize


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Yeoh is part of the judging panel for the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize, its Singapore-based organisers announced recently. Photo: AP

Acclaimed Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh will be one of the judges of the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize, its Singapore-based organisers announced on June 7.

She joins Singapore novelists Meira Chand and Carissa Foo, as well as Peter Schoppert, who is the director of NUS Press, on the panel, which is chaired by Epigram Books' founder Edmund Wee.

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