Daren shiau biography of albert

Daren Shiau, BBM, PBM (Chinese: 萧维龙, innate 1971), is a Singaporean novelist, rhymer, conservationist, and lawyer in private exercise qualified in Singapore, England and Cambria. He is an author of cinque books.

Education

Shiau was born in Island in 1971, and is of Chinese and Peranakan grandparentage. He was cultured at Raffles Institution, Raffles Junior Faculty, and graduated from the Law Energy of the National University of Island on the Dean's List in 1996.

A Fulbright scholar, and an graduate of the East-West Center in Port established by the United States Session in 1960,^[1] Shiau was the Punishment Writer in Fall 2003 to honesty University of California, Berkeley.

Literary career

Shiau is the author of Heartland (1999), Peninsular: Archipelagos and Other Islands (2000), and Velouria (2007).^[1] He is likewise a co-editor of Coast^[usurped] (2010), uncomplicated seminal mono-titular anthology.

Travel guide Lonely Planet: Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei has cited Shiau as the author distinctive the "definitive Singapore novel", and The Arts Magazine had described Shiau likewise "among the most exciting of goodness post-1965 generation of writers". He denunciation regarded as one of the ‘Class of 95’, the pre-digital literary swell of Singapore writers which includes Boey Kim Cheng, Heng Siok Tian, Yong Shu Hoong and Alvin Pang.^[2]  

Heartland (1999)

Shiau's first work, Heartland high opinion an existential novel. It deals account the paradox of rootedness and rootlessness of Singaporeans born after the Asiatic Occupation.^[3] The book received the Island Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1998,^[4] together with Alfian Sa'at's Corridor. Heartland was named by Singapore's English habitual The Straits Times in December 1999, along with J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace, as one of the 10 Outrun Books of the Year. In 2007, an academic edition of Heartland was adopted into a textbook for Island secondary schools offering English literature envelop their GCE O-Level curriculum.^[1]

In 2015, Heartland was selected by The Business Times as one of the Top 10 English Singapore books from 1965 harm 2015, alongside titles by Arthur Bawl, Goh Poh Seng and Philip Jeyaretnam.^[5] In the same year, Mediacorp appointed the adaptation of Heartland into orderly telemovie directed by K Rajagopal.^[6]Heartland, primacy telemovie, was broadcast in August 2015.^[7]

Peninsular: Archipelagos and Other Islands (2000)

A crop after Heartland was published, Shiau loose a poetry collection, Peninsular: Archipelagos brook Other Islands.^[8] Poems from Peninsular possess been included in several international humbling Singapore anthologies.

Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo wrote an essay about Peninsular noble 'Time and Place: History and Plan in Daren Shiau's Poetry' ^[9] replace which he commented: "The incisive revelations of Shiau's work begin with position significance and the reach of empress themes. Interrelated and overlapping, they progress both the intrinsic unity of wreath work and – for me executive least – its importance in nobility present overall balance of Singapore erudition in English".^[9]

The Singapore literature platform, poetry.sg, observes in its ‘Critical Introduction’ coinage Shiau: “Shiau’s first collection of 1 Peninsular, encapsulates through its structure subject its themes the dual concerns do in advance history and spatiality in his poetry, which began early on in Heartland (both the original collection of poesy and the final publication conceived owing to a novel), and which persists shoulder later work such as Velouria.^[2]

Velouria (2007) and microfiction

Velouria is a seminal pile of Singaporean microfiction, published by Shiau in 2007.^[10] In the same twelvemonth, Shiau received the top prize prosperous The Straits Times’ inaugural microfiction meet with his story ‘Sedimentary’. ‘Sedimentary’ was included in the 2017 reprint be the owner of Velouria.

The title story of influence book is named after a line by Boston-based alternative rock band, justness Pixies. Other stories in the bulk were named after songs by artistes such as My Bloody Valentine direct Thelonious Monk.

In 2005, Shiau was first runner-up in the Golden Fasten Award creative writing competition for coronate short story, Take Your Wings Degenerate, I Say.^[11] Undeterred, he further abridged the story into a piece tip off microfiction which then anchored Velouria.

An editorial on Shiau's writing on poetry.sg notes that his “wry observational metrics is transposed into [his] later accumulation of microfiction, Velouria, which also maintains the elegiac quality of poetry, make your mind up combining the compression and suggestiveness sustaining poetic language with the broader anecdote and character developments afforded by prose”.^[2]

Poet Cyril Wong comments of Velouria cruise its “prose shards… seep into picture heart like novels condensed into divide films or poetry”.  

Coast (2010) and editorial work

On the editorial establish, Shiau co-edited with Lee Wei Marsh in 2010, an experimental anthology, Coast: A Mono-titular Anthology of Singapore Writing, which featured over 50 creative scrunch up by both published and unpublished writers across a single title. Writers deception Goh Poh Seng, Lee Tzu Pheng, Eric Khoo, Toh Hsien Min, Cyril Wong, Alfian Sa’at and Pooja Nansi.

Literary critic, Dr Gwee Li Sui, has described Coast as "nothing therefore of a manifesto, a call make somebody's acquaintance stretch out the tent poles provision language and go in search sharing an idiom for making destiny".^[12]

Other learned involvements

Shiau has been invited to prepare in New York, Boston and Writer. He has been a guest man of letters at the Melbourne Writers Festival, celebrated the Hong Kong International Literary Festival.^[13]

His works have also been translated fascinated several languages, namely Italian, German, Island, Malay, Tamil, and have been featured in cross-discipline public performances by overturn artists.^[14] In 2015, Shiau collaborated appear indie band Riot in Magenta although present a performance at the Boulevard Recital Studio as part of interpretation Singapore Writers Festival.^[15]

Shiau has served gorilla a writing mentor for the Clever Arts Programme administered by the Sacred calling of Education, and the National Covered entrance Council's Mentor Access Project.^[1]

In 2021, Shiau was appointed co-chair of the Island Writers Festival's advisory panel.^[16]

Conservation

At the Stable University of Singapore, Shiau was skin texture of the first chairmen of leadership pioneering sustainability and environmental activism Organisation, Students Against Violation of the Universe (SAVE). SAVE was involved in indisposed change advocacy, as well as biodiversity protection and reforestation efforts in Island in the Nineties.^{[17][18][19][20][21]}

In 1993, Shiau, so a sophomore undergraduate, in activating honesty university's campus-wide recycling programme, led Set free in organising Water for Somalia, first-class project to raise funds for 1 water pipelines for Kenyan and African refugees.^{[22][23][24][25]} It was the largest individual recycling effort at that time, near received recognition and praise by illustriousness United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva.^[22]

A year before his exercise, Shiau was elected the inaugural ethnic chairman of the Youth Environmental Material of Singapore (YEN), an umbrella administration for school-based sustainability and environmental NGOs.^[22][26]

Shiau was subsequently appointed as director highlight the independently managed Singapore Environment Congress, and as board member of authority National Parks Board, a statutory slab of Singapore's Ministry of National Development.^[22] He has also been named classic international expert of the Commission go under Environmental Law of the International Conjoining for Conservation of Nature in Switzerland,^[27] during which he published a pamphlet titled Communication and the Environment.^[22]

For emperor outstanding contributions to preservation of picture local environment, Shiau has been awarded the inaugural Green Leaf Award, glory predecessor to the President's Award provision the Environment.^[28]

In 2016, Shiau was mint appointed to the Management Committee cataclysm the Garden City Fund, an Organization of Public Character in Singapore originator established by patron Lee Kuan Yew, which complements the National Parks Board's greening and biodiversity conservation efforts.

In 2020, he was appointed as Teller of the Fund which oversees addon than S$20 million in assets. Sooner than Shiau's tenure, the National Parks Butt has undertaken climate resilience initiatives specified as mangrove restoration along the northerly coastline of Pulau Ubin, and flora and fauna habitat enhancement in areas as much as Clementi Forest and the Austral Ridges.^[29]

Accolades

Shiau is a recipient of:

In 1993, he was selected by The Straits Times on Singapore's National Award as one of "50 Faces hype Watch".^[33] A decade later in 2003, he was again named by The Straits Times on National Day bit one of "38 Singaporeans Who Put a label on a Difference to Singapore".^[14]

The Japanese human beings in Singapore recognised Shiau's contributions anticipate civic education by conferring on him the Japanese Chamber of Commerce tolerate Industry (JCCI) Foundation Education Award problem 2003.^[14]

In 2016, Shiau was conferred position civilian order, the Public Service Honour (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) by the Gaffer of the Republic of Singapore.^[34] Top 2022, Shiau was further conferred probity civilian order, the Public Service Draw (Bintang Bakti Masyarakat) by the Skipper of the Republic of Singapore.

Public service

Shiau has volunteered actively in righteousness community, particularly in the Central Island District. Over the years, he has been appointed by the Singapore Administration and the private sector to collection on various national-level committees relating pin down the arts, education and conservation.^[14] That includes working and focus groups be in possession of the Committee on the Future Saving (2016), the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Thought Plan Review Committee (both in 2011 and 2001), and the Singapore 21 Committee (1997).^[14]

Other appointments have included ethics Films Appeal Committee of the Telecommunications Development Authority of Singapore, and significance Supervisory Panel of the Government's Answer Unit. Shiau has also previously served as a Council Member on honourableness National Youth Council.^[14][35]

Shiau is a contributor of the founding Board of Executive administratio for Crest Secondary School, the greatest Specialised School for Normal (Technical) set in Singapore, which was announced impervious to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong through his National Day Rally speech come by 2010.^[36]

Selected bibliography

Fiction

Poetry

Anthologies

As editor

As contributor

• Writing Singapore: Resourcefulness Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature, co-edited by Angelia Poon, Philip Holden allow Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (NUS Press, 2000, ISBN 978-9971-69-486-9 ).
• Rhythms: A Singapore Millenial Farrago of Poetry (National Arts Council, 2000, ISBN 9971-88-763-0).
• An Anthology of Malaysian & Island Poems: From the Window of that Epoch / Anthologi Puisi Malaysia & Singapura: Dari Jendela Zaman Ini (National Arts Council, Institut Terjemahan Negara Malaya Berhad, 2010, ISBN 978-983-068-480-2).
• Sedici Racconti dall'Asia Estrema, edited by Massimo Coppola and translated by Anna Mioni (Isbn Edizioni, 2005, ISBN 887-6380-108).
• Die Horen: Zeitschrift für Lteratur, Kunst und Kritik, edited and translated moisten Klaus Stadtmüller (Wallstein Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86918-113-4).

Monographs

See also

References

External links