The Sound of SingLit: 45 Epigram titles to become audio books
SINGAPORE — Singapore publisher Epigram and Swedish audio book company Storytel have struck a deal to turn some of Epigram’s catalogue of print titles into audio books.
Storytel bought the rights to 45 of Epigram’s titles, which range from non-fiction works such as Paige Parker’s Don’t Call Me Mrs Rogers, Angjolie Mei’s Dying To Meet You and Danielle West’s Girls Can’t Be in the Mafia; to bestselling titles for young adults such as Low Ying Ping’s Mount Emily series, Ning Cai’s Misdirection and Judith Huang’s Sofia and the Utopia Machine.
Other novels to be converted include new releases such as The Minorities by Suffian Hakim, award-winning titles such as the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize winner State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang; the 2018 Singapore Book Award winner The Gatekeeper by Nuraliah Norasid; and Epigram Books Fiction Prize winners The Riot Act by Sebastian Sim and Now That It’s Over by O Thiam Chin.
Edmund Wee, publisher of Epigram Books, said: “We are thrilled by the prospect of giving our titles a new platform and we believe that this will introduce Singaporean literature a whole new audience not just in Singapore but the world over.”
“We are very happy to cooperate with Epigram Books and be given the honour to convert some of their excellent catalogue into audio,” Helena Gustafsson, Head of Global Publishing of Storytel, said. “Local publishers are the most important partners to Storytel when entering a new market. Together we hope to grow the audio book market in Singapore.”
EPIGRAM TITLES TO BECOME AUDIOBOOKS
Misdirection by Ning Cai
The Brigadier's Daughter by Paul Callan
Once We Were There by Bernice Chauly
Spider Boys and Big Mole by Ming Cher
Scorpion Orchid by Lloyd Fernando
If It Were Up to Mrs Dada by Carissa Foo
The Minorities by Suffian Hakim
I'm Not Perfect. I'm A Mom by Jasmine Han and Shelly Holly
Annabelle Thong by Imran Hashim
Sofia and the Utopia Machine by Judith Huang
Inheritance and Sugarbread by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Lieutenant Kurosawa's Errand Boy by Warran Kalasegaran
The Last Immigrant by Lau Siew Mei
The Good, The Bad, and the PSLE by Monica Lim
Lion Boy and Drummer Girl by Pauline Loh
Let the People Have Him: Chiam See Tong – The Early Years by Loke Hoe Yeong
Mount Emily, Mount Emily Revisited, Midnight at Mount Emily, and Goodbye Mount Emily by Low Ying Ping
Dying to Meet You by Angjolie Mei
Nimita's Place by Akshita Nanda
The Gatekeeper by Nuraliah Norasid
Now That It's Over and Fox Fire Girl by O Thiam Chin
Don't Call Me Mrs Rogers by Paige Parker
Son of Singapore and Man of Malaysia by Tan Kok Seng
Let's Give It Up For Gimme Lao! and The Riot Act by Sebastian Sim
A Certain Exposure by Jolene Tan
18 Walls by Teo Xue Shen
Surrogate Protocol and Band Eight by Tham Cheng-E
State of Emergency by Jeremy Tiang
Girls Can't Be in the Mafia by Danielle West
The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza and Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me by Cyril Wong
Altered Straits by Kevin Martens Wong
Death of a Perm Sec by Wong Souk Yee
Kappa Quartet by Daryl Qilin Yam
9th of August by Andre Yeo
The Adventures of Holden Heng by Robert Yeo
ABOUT STORYTEL
Storytel is the leading audiobook subscription streaming service in Northern Europe. The books are streamed through the Storytel app and can also be placed in offline mode. In addition, Storytel also publishes its own books under the name, Storyside. Currently, there are more than 120,000 audio books in Storytel, in English and other languages, and more are added each month.
ABOUT EPIGRAM
Epigram began its trade publishing imprint in July 2011 to champion Singaporean literature. Since then, it has more than 350 titles in its catalogue, several of which have won awards both locally and globally, including The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (winner of three Eisner Awards); State of Emergency and Ministry of Moral Panic (both winners of the Singapore Literature Prize for English Fiction). Epigram also runs the annual Epigram Books Fiction Prize, which offers prize money of $40,000 and publishing contracts to four authors every year.
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