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    Grandmother: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles
    Grandmother: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles
    Grandmother: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles
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    Grandmother: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles

    By Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

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    Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s “Let’s Tell This Story Properly,” alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.

    Grandmother is by Singapore’s Yu-Mei Balasingamchow.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateSep 26, 2015
    ISBN9781459733626
    Grandmother: Let’s Tell This Story Properly Short Story Singles
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    Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

    Yu-Mei Balasingamchow lives in Singapore and writes about history, travel, and culture in Asia. She is the co-author of Singapore: A Biography, which received a gold prize at the Asia Pacific Publishers Association Awards in 2010 and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010.

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      Grandmother - Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

      Table of Contents

      The Commonwealth Short Story Prize

      Foreword by Romesh Gunesekera

      Editor's Note

      Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Singapore): Grandmother

      About The Authors

      The Commonwealth Short Story Prize

      The Short Story Prize was launched by Commonwealth Writers in 2012 as an award for the best piece of unpublished short fiction written in English from across the Commonwealth. It is one of the few international prizes open to published and unpublished writers alike and to stories translated into English.

      Commonwealth Writers is the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation, an international development organization based in London. It was set up to inspire and connect writers and storytellers across the world. We believe that well-told stories can help people make sense of events, engage with others, and take action to bring about change.

      This anthology comprises some of the strongest entries to the prize between 2012 and 2014, selected by the Chairs of the judging panels: author Bernardine Evaristo, broadcaster and journalist Razia Iqbal, and editor and critic Ellah Wakatama Allfrey.

      Each year the international judges select five winning writers from five different Commonwealth regions — Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific — one of whom is chosen as the overall winner.

      We receive thousands of stories from almost every one of the fifty-three countries in the Commonwealth. As well as more established writers, the shortlists each year include many new and emerging writers, often from countries with little or no publishing infrastructure.

      It’s our aim to bring writers from around the world to the attention of a wider audience. Let’s Tell This Story Properly is one way to achieve this.

      We would like to thank our judges from 2012–14: Tash Aw, Doreen Baingana, Urvashi Butalia, Craig

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