Jeremy Tiang

Jeremy Tiang (born 17 January 1977) is a Singaporean writer, translator and playwright based in New York City. Tiang won the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel, State of Emergency, published in 2017.

Career In 2009, Tiang won the National Arts Council's (NAC) Golden Point Award for English fiction for his story Trondheim. At that time, Tiang was shocked as he was writing full-time and any additional money would be useful but decided to keep writing. His manuscript was subsequently shortlisted for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize where he received a cash prize of $5,000.

In 2018, he won the Singapore Literature Prize for English fiction for his debut novel State of Emergency (2017).

In 2025 Tiang won the Obie Award in the category "Outstanding New Play" for his play Salesman之死, presented by Yangtze Repertory Theatre and Gung Ho Projects.