Chiu Liu Chian
Chiu Liu Chian is one of the winners of the National Book Development Council of Singapore Book Awards in 1982. He is a poet and a literary critic, and owes much of his success to his education in the then University of Singapore, where he studied western literature and philosophy which he now regards as important in refining his literary writing techniques.

Chiu believes that writers need to be bilingual themselves in order to keep in step with new social developments. He argues that if Chinese writers are bilingual and would widen their scope of writing, there should be no danger of a falling readership.