Daryl Lim Wei Jie (b. 1990)
BIOGRAPHY
Daryl Lim Wei Jie (林伟杰, b. 1990) is a poet, editor, translator and literary critic. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Anything but Human (2021), a finalist for the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize, and A Book of Changes (2016), developed from a manuscript which won the Golden Point Award for English Poetry in 2015. Daryl was awarded the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council in 2023, Singapore’s highest award for young arts practitioners. Daryl has been part of literary festivals and residencies in the US, Singapore, China, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Italy.
Apart from his own writing, Daryl has curated anthologies to showcase compelling voices from Singapore and the region. He conceptualised and co-edited Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020), the first anthology of literary food writing from Singapore. Food Republic won a Special Award at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2023. The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian and Singaporean Writing (2023), which he also conceptualised and co-edited, brings together writers from Malaysia and Singapore to ruminate creatively on the historic relationship between the two countries. The Second Link was a finalist for best literary work at the 2024 Singapore Book Awards.
Daryl has played a role in fostering literary criticism in Singapore. He was one of the founding members of poetry.sg, an online encyclopaedia of Singapore poetry. He has contributed criticism on writers such as Aaron Maniam, Eddie Tay, Wong May and Wong Phui Nam. He has played a particular role in the revival of the work by the pioneering Malaysian poet Wong Phui Nam, a key figure in the Singapore literary scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Daryl was the editor of the revised edition of Wong’s collection, The Hidden Papyrus of Hen-taui (2019).
Daryl is also deeply interested in translation and exchanges between cultures and languages. He translated Short Tongue (2023), a collection by the Singaporean Chinese poet Wang Mun Kiat.
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