Singa-Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore

Nazry Bahrawi is a literary critic and educator at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and specialises in the comparative study of texts, thoughts and traditions between the Malay Archipelago and the Arab world. Currently Editor at Large of Wasafiri, he has translated two Bahasa literary works to English. These include the translation of Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s stories into the collected work Lost Nostalgia (2017), Nadiputra’s play Muzika Lorong Buang Kok (2012), Fuzaina Jumaidi’s poem “Tika Hamba Menjadi Tuannya” (2015) for the Mentor Access Project that is managed by the National Arts Council of Singapore, as well as the 2017 winning short story for the Golden Point Award, “Balada Kasih Romi Dan Junid”. He has also subtitled the classic Malay film Noor Islam (1960) produced by Cathay Keris. Nazry was formerly the interview editor of Asymptote, an international journal of literary translation.