Raffles Hotel Singapore has named Taiwanese chef André Chiang, best known for his genre-defying modern French cuisine at the now-closed Restaurant André, as its newest writer-in-residence.
The hotel has long been associated with literary greats such as Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, who were among its earliest guests.
The programme, launched in 2019 and now in its fourth edition, was designed to nurture creative writing talent.
Chiang follows in the footsteps of Oxford-born travel writer Pico Iyer, Singaporean poet Madeleine Lee, and New Zealand author and journalist Vicki Virtue. Notably, he will be the first chef to take part in the programme.
As part of the project, Chiang has produced Fragments of Time, a 200-page meditation on heritage, light and the art of preserving tradition.