Yeng Pway Ngon (Chinese: 英培安; pinyin: Yīng Péi'ān; Jyutping: Jing1 Pui4 On1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Eng Pôe-an; 26 January 1947 – 10 January 2021) was a Singaporean poet, novelist and critic in the Chinese literary scene in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
As a student, Yeng excelled in Chinese and art classes at Catholic High School, Singapore, but scraped through or failed everything else.
He decided to embark on writing after submitting a sonnet in lieu of an essay on any subject in Chinese class.
From 1978 to 1983, Yeng worked as a newspaper columnist for Nanyang Siang Pau writing for the column "Chang Hua Duan Shuo".
Yeng continued contributing as a columnist for the newspaper's "Ren Zai Jiang Hu" column.
He taught classes on Chinese literature and novel-writing and also started to devote more time to a novel about the lives of Cantonese opera actors.
Reading it in its English translation, she called it "beautifully broad-minded in its attitude towards women's rights and inter- racial relations, nicely detailing some characters' slow awakening to the lessons one can learn in art and life outside a narrow circle.
Tan had accused Yeng of libelling him in a 2005 letter which the latter had sent to The Straits Times and the National Arts Council.