SINGAPORE – Playwright and author Myle Yan Tay went home with two top prizes at the Singapore Book Awards 2024, winning Best Literary Work and Book of the Year for his debut novel catskull (2023).

“There are two Singapores,” observes Ram, the protagonist of Singaporean author Myle Yan Tay’s debut novel catskull. There is a Singapore of surfaces, a good, clean garden city. And then ...