2719

Gwee Li Sui

Jan 2024 · Singapore Bicentennial Book 16 · Ethos Books

About this ebook

2719 presents a history of the future. It is a creative prognosis that charts how Singapore will develop for the next seven hundred years. Moments in the island’s real history will reverberate through the course of its current challenges, its cycles of self-making, and the future of our world order.

About the author

Born in 1970, Gwee Li Sui is a literary critic, a poet, and a graphic artist. His first book Myth of the Stone, written and drawn at the age of twenty-one, was Singapore’s first full-length graphic novel in English. Although it was met with critical silence back in 1993, it has returned in a popular, special, twentieth-anniversary edition published by Epigram Books in 2013. He also wrote a book of funny verse Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems?, which Landmark Books published in 1998, and his book of love poems One Thousand and One Nights was just released by the same publisher. A familiar name in Singapore’s literary scene, Gwee has written essays on a broad range of cultural subjects and is well-loved for his instruction in Singaporean literature and, in particular, Singaporean poetry. He is also the editor of Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature II (2009), Telltale: Eleven Stories (2010), and Man/Born/Free: Writings on the Human Spirit from Singapore(2011), all published by Ethos Books.