Jeremy Tiang (born 17 January 1977) is a Singaporean writer, translator and playwright based in New York City.
Tiang won the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel, State of Emergency, published in 2017.
[2] In 2009, Tiang won the National Arts Council's (NAC) Golden Point Award for English fiction for his story Trondheim.
[3][1] In 2016, his short story collection It Never Rains on National Day was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize.
[4] In 2017, during a Parliament of Singapore's session, Non-constituency Member of Parliament, Dennis Tan, questioned why NAC withdrew the funding, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Grace Fu, replied that the book was not what was mutually agreed upon and hence the withdrawal of subsequent funds.