Popular culture isn’t simply mindless consumption for the masses. It can be used to speak volumes about issues that people face every day. Join authors Sonny Liew, Hsu Li Yang and Suffian Hakim, as they explain how and why pop culture in literature may be more important than ever.
– EVENT DETAILS –
DATE: 21 December 2019 TIME: 1.00pm - 3.00pm VENUE: Kinokuniya Singapore Main Store, Level 4, Takashimaya S.C.
– ABOUT THE BOOKS –
THE ANTIBIOTIC TALES Award-winning comic artist Sonny Liew and Dr Hsu Li Yang from National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health address common myths about antibiotics. In this easy-to-read book, Liew and Hsu break down the complexity of the medication, effects of overusage and its adaptation in the farming industry.
HARRIS BIN POTTER AND THE STONED PHILOSOPHER Harris bin Potter is an orphan who loves to play void deck football like any other Singaporean boy. But when he discovers he is a parceltongue (i.e., he can talk to boxes...er, parcels), his world changes. Harris learns about his magical lineage and enrols at the MOE-approved Hog-Tak-Halal-What School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There, he is sorted into the House of Fandi and gets caught up in an insane adventure to save Singapore's magical folk from being turned into kosongs.
– ABOUT THE AUTHORS –
HSU LI YANG Hsu Li Yang is the head of the Infectious Diseases Programme NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Senior Consultant and Head, Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, and Deputy Clinical Director, Communicable Diseases Centre, Ministry of Health. His research areas include Bacterial antibiotic resistance: Epidemiology, Mechanisms, and Intervention. Hsu received a Master of Public Health at Harvard University in 2007.
SONNY LIEW Sonny Liew's The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye won three Eisner Awards, was a New York Times and Amazon bestseller, and became the first graphic novel to win the Singapore Literature Prize. It has also picked up several international awards and is published in several countries including the UK, US, France and Italy. Other works by Sonny include The Shadow Hero (with Gene Luen Yang), Doctor Fate (with Paul Levitz) and Malinky Robot, as well as titles for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, DC Vertigo, First Second Books, Boom Studios, Disney Press and Image Comics. He also spearheaded Liquid City, a multi-volume comics anthology featuring creators from Southeast Asia.
SUFFIAN HAKIM Suffian Hakim is the author of Harris bin Potter and the Stoned Philosopher and The Minorities. The Straits Times has called him “undoubtedly one of the most whimsical, creative and unpretentious young voices in Singapore literature”. Suffian is currently a writer at Big 3 Media. He was previously a regional content lead at media agency GroupM and had written for television shows such as Random Island and The Noose, and publications Esquire and August Man.
