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David has written poetry, humour, a novella (Different Strokes), a novel (Shakespeare Can Wait), as well as three award-winning collections of short stories: Ah… the Fragrance of Durians (1993), The Sins of the Father (1993) and Wives, Lovers and Other Women (1995), which won a Singapore Literature Prize Commendation. His fourth collection, News at Nine (2003), is being used as a secondary school English text. Some of David’s short stories have been staged in both English and Chinese at The Substation. Two of the stories were included in the award-winning The Singapore Short Story Project produced for a Singapore television station.
What book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
"Paulo Coehlo's The Alchemist, which is poetically written and weaved like a dream. A perfect nightcap for that feel-good sensation that makes the book a worthwhile read.
I will also gladly take with me under the covers any book on poetry. My all-time favourites include Omar Khayyam's The Prophet and T S Eliot's body of works."
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