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ArunDitha (Deborah Emmanuel)

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in Singapore, Singapore

Website

http://arunditha.com

Genre

Poetry, Memoir, Art

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August 2015

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ArunDitha (Born Deborah Arunditha Emmanuel, 1988) is a Singaporean poet, performer, and multiple TEDx speaker. As a slam poet she has featured at festivals like the Barcelona International Poetry Festival, the Makassar International Writers Festival and the Queensland Poetry Festival and won competitions in Singapore, Germany and Australia. Her work has featured in places like Bali, Berlin, London, New York City and Kathmandu, and she has toured alongside people like Anthony Anaxagorou and Sarah Kay.

Deborah’s first collection, When I Giggle In My Sleep, was published by Red Wheelbarrow Books early 2015. Her creative non-fiction work Rebel Rites, was self-published in 2016. Genesis is her third book. When not making poems, she can ...more

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	Rebel Rites 4.53 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Genesis - Visual Poetry Collection 4.59 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When I Giggle in My Sleep 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ASINGBOL: An Archaeology of the Singaporean Poetic Form by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé (Editor), Al Hafiz Sanusi, Al Lim 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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How a Singapore writer survived a year of imprisonment

Deborah Emmanuel seems like a sunny enough character. The Singaporean writer is young, witty, affable and attractive. Even her rave-reviewed collection of poems is called When I Giggle In My Sleep. So when she says she has taken a short break from writing and performing her poetry to pen a non-fiction novel based on her own experiences, you won