Alvin Pang
Alvin Pang, PhD, is a poet, writer, editor and translator whose broad creative practice spans three decades of literary and related activities in Singapore and elsewhere. Featured in the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English and the Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, his writing has been translated into more than twenty languages, including Swedish, Croatian, Macedonian, Chinese, Malay and French.
A 2022 Civitella Ranieri Fellow, he has received Singapore’s Young Artist of the Year Award, the Singapore Youth Award and the JCCI Education Award. Among other engagements, he is an honorary Adjunct Professor of RMIT University, serves on several editorial advisory boards, and was a judge of the 2022 Dublin Literary Award and the 2023 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarships. His recent books include What Happened: Poems 1997–2017 (2017), Uninterrupted time (2019), Det som ger oss våra namn(2022), and Diaphanous, co-written with George Szirtes.
