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  • NarrativeThe Hikayat AbdullahHikayat AbdullahMunsyi Abdullah · 1849The memoirs of a Malay scholar in the service of the British, witness to the early days of Singapore.Literature
  • CinemaLeila MajnunB. S. Rajhans · 1934A legend of thwarted love, brought to the screen in Malay by actors from popular theatre.Cinema
  • Novel新加坡屋顶下Miao Xiu · 1951not translated into EnglishA short novel in Chinese rooted in the lives of Singapore's poor.Literature
  • CinemaHang TuahPhani Majumdar · 1956The legend of the most loyal warrior of Malacca, told in colour and song.Cinema
  • PoetryAwan putihMasuri S. N. · 1958not translated into EnglishThe first poems of a Singapore schoolteacher, born of war and the hope of independence.Literature
  • NovelPanglima AwangHarun Aminurrashid · 1958not translated into EnglishA Malay captive who sailed with Magellan, in a novel that gives a hero to the vanquished of Malacca.Literature
  • CinemaMusang BerjanggutP. Ramlee · 1959A Malay tale turned into a comedy, in which a king's court covers itself in ridicule.Cinema
  • CinemaHang JebatHussain Haniff · 1961The legend of Malacca told from the rebel's side, against blind loyalty.Cinema
  • NovelTak Ada Jalan KeluarSuratman Markasan · 1962not translated into EnglishThe misery of a mother alone in the pre-war Malay world, seen by a novelist from Singapore.Literature
  • NovelIf We Dream Too LongGoh Poh Seng · 1972A young man looking for his place in the changing, mercantile city of the sixties.Literature
  • Short storiesLittle Ironies: Stories of SingaporeCatherine Lim · 1978Short, biting stories about a society losing touch with its roots.Literature
  • PoetryUlysses by the MerlionEdwin Thumboo · 1979Poems that seek a shared identity for a nation made up of several peoples.Literature
  • Poetrydown the lineArthur Yap · 1980The collection of a great Singaporean poet writing in English, attentive to the spoken language of his island.Literature
  • TheatreThe Coffin Is Too Big for the HoleKuo Pao Kun · 1985A satirical monologue on the individual, the family and the administration in Singapore in the eighties.Literature
  • NovelLonely Face孤寂的脸Yeng Pway Ngon · 1989The second novel of a great Singaporean writer in Chinese, the weekend of a lonely man.Literature
  • NovelFlowers at Dawnவைகறைப் பூக்கள்Ma. Ilangkannan · 1990The Tamils of Singapore under the Japanese occupation, caught between colonial loyalty and the Indian cause.Literature
  • Cinema12 StoreysEric Khoo · 1997A day in a public housing tower, where outward success hides loneliness.Cinema
  • PoetryOne Fierce HourAlfian Sa'at · 1998A first collection of anger and irony, which challenges the official narrative of the city-state.Literature