State of Emergency - Jeremy Tiang

Jeremy Tiang won the Singapore Literature Prize for his novel State of Emergency , and was shortlisted for the same prize for his short story collection It Never Rains on National Day . He has translated over thirty books from Chinese, including Zhang Yueran's Cocoon for World Editions, which won the Singapore Literature Prize. He also writes and translates plays -- most recently Salesman 之死 , which was staged at New York's Connelly Theater and received an Obie Award. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in New York City.