Sáu tác phẩm xuất sắc đạt giải thưởng Lịch sử Singapore của NUS năm 2024

The Department of History at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences today announced six compelling works that have been shortlisted for the 2024 NUS Singapore History Prize – the first-ever prize devoted entirely to Singaporean history.

The NUS Singapore History Prize is awarded every three years, and the author of the winning publication will receive a cash award of S$50,000.

Among the many important works submitted that offer fresh understandings of Singaporean history, the following books were chosen by a five-member Nominating Committee, as best meeting the qualities that the Prize strives to encourage:

The Shortlist:

1. Wesley Leon Aroozoo, The Punkhawala and the Prostitute (Singapore: Epigram Books, 2021).
2. Timothy P. Barnard, ed., Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City (Singapore: NUS Press, 2024).
3. Kevin Blackburn, The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory (Singapore: NUS Press, 2022).
4. Khir Johari, The Food of Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels through the Archipelago (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2021).
5. Loh Kah Seng, Alex Tan Tiong Hee, Koh Keng We, Tan Teng Phee, and Juria Toramae, Theatres of Memory: Industrial Heritage of 20th Century Singapore (Singapore: Pagesetters Services, 2021).
6. Lynn Wong Yuqing & Lee Kok Leong, Reviving Qixi: Singapore’s Forgotten Seven Sisters Festival (Singapore: Renforest Publishing, 2022).

Please refer to the Annex for brief synopses of the six shortlisted books.

Mooted by Mr Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the NUS Asia Research Institute, and administered by the NUS Department of History, the NUS Singapore History Prize aims to stimulate an engagement with Singapore’s history broadly understood (this may include pre-1819 history) and works dealing with Singapore’s place in the world. Another purpose is to make the complexities and nuances of Singapore’s history more accessible to non-academic audiences and to cast a wide net for consideration of works that deal with Singaporean history. At the same time, the Prize hopes to generate a greater understanding among Singaporean citizens of their own unique history.

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