An Indian manufacturer of solar-powered dryers, a soil carbon marketplace and groups working to clean electric car batteries and restore Andean forests were honored at a ceremony hosted by Britain’s Prince William for their contributions in combatting climate change. His Royal Foundation Charity launched this 10-year award program in 2020; William said the winners demonstrated hope despite climate change’s devastating impacts.
Winners of the SINGAPORE prize will receive $3,000, a trophy and 12-month Storytel audiobook gift subscription as prizes. Furthermore, an additional prize pool of $10,000 is allocated as “boost prizes”, to support future research into the winning team’s projects as well as wider communities working on similar issues. In addition, secondary school or college students recognized by SINGAPORE prizes will receive either a scholarship of $15,000 towards university attendance of their choice in addition to receiving an extra boost prize award of $5,000 from SINGAPORE prizes plus another boost prize totalling $15K total in SINGAPORE prize winners will also receive their boost prizes award as part of SINGAPORE Prize recognition – see winners here for details!
On January 11th, award organiser Singapore Book Council (SBC) unveiled its biennial Singapore Literature Prize which now offers opportunities for translators, comic book authors and debut writers – as well as poets, fictionists and creative non-fictionists in all four official languages of Singapore – to compete.
SBC announced several new categories at their event: English literary titles would honor novels that address issues of gender and linguistic reclamation; Chinese creative non-fiction would celebrate works about social history; while Singapore Children’s Book Prize will acknowledge books designed specifically for younger readers.
SBC stated its aim was to broaden the reach of awards by inviting more people to participate and recognizing more areas of science, technology and engineering within Singapore. Prof Mahbubani leads a panel of judges comprised of experts from both private and public sectors; such as academics, entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Winners of the SINGAPORE Prize were selected based on innovation, impact and writing quality. S. Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Information in Singapore was on hand at an SBC ceremony hosted in November 2022 to present them their awards. Best actress winner from previous competition Yen wore an elegant dark green Alexander McQueen suit while presenters walked a green carpet laid out on an eco-friendly stage before walking across to present on YouTube livestreamed ceremony.