Jeremy Tiang

Jeremy Tiang (born 17 January 1977) is a Singaporean writer, translator and playwright based in New York City.

In 2009, Tiang won the National Arts Council's (NAC) Golden Point Award for English fiction for his story Trondheim.

In 2010, Tiang's idea for his first novel, titled State of Emergency qualified for a grant by the NAC.

Under the Creation Grant Scheme, he would receive a total of $12,000.

In 2016, his short story collection It Never Rains on National Day was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize.

It took him seven years to write the novel but when he submitted the first draft to the council in 2016, the remainder of the grant was withdrawn – he had received $8,600 by then.

At that time, Tiang was shocked as he was writing full-time and any additional money would be useful but decided to keep writing.

His manuscript was subsequently shortlisted for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize where he received a cash prize of $5,000.

In 2017, during a Parliament of Singapore's session, Non-constituency Member of Parliament, Dennis Tan, questioned why NAC withdrew the funding, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Grace Fu, replied that the book was not what was mutually agreed upon and hence the withdrawal of subsequent funds.

On Tan's further asking whether Tiang failed to deliver the book as promised and what is the failed fulfilment, Fu did not further elaborate on details.

Tiang won the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel, State of Emergency, published in 2017.

In 2018, he won the Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel State of Emergency (2017).

The Singapore Book Council which established and managed the Singapore Literature Prize said that Tiang's win was a "unanimous decision" by the judges.

In 2023 Tiang chaired the jury for the National Book Award for Translated Literature.