MALAYSIAN writer Joshua Kam was picked as the winner of 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize in an award ceremony and gala dinner held in Singapore recently. It’s filled with energy, cheerfulness and a linguistic panache that is... altogether charming.”PAGES OF JOSHUA KAMThe accidental author, Joshua Kam. Writing isn't exactly a career for me, but a kind of by-product of existing in a world of people, places, tastes, and things. My writing style tends to play on the sort of dark, merry writing of medieval and Hikayat literature. Community, ancestry, and friendship are integral to the way I see the world, and the way I write.

Source: New Strait Times February 09, 2020 00:00 UTC