![]() 3 Saudi Crown (7-2) is a pair of noses away from being undefeated in his brief four-start career, and the speed figures he earned in his two route tries tower above the competition. Nair is survived by his wife, three daughters – Radha, Meera and Chandrika Nair – and six grandchildren.No. ![]() Joshua Ip, chairman and station director of Sing Lit Station, says the literary non-profit will organise a memorial for Nair on Sept 28 at 8pm, with more details to come. Nair spent the earlier part of his career working in publishing houses such as Eastern Universities Press, Federal Publications and Times Books International before leaving Singapore to work for Unesco in Karachi – where he also took up painting and theatre – and subsequently France. ![]() In 1977, Nair edited a literary anthology, Singapore Writing, which surveyed the landscape of pioneering Singaporean writers working in different languages, including Edwin Thumboo, Angeline Yap, Abdul Ghani Hamid and Wong Yoon Wah. He published his first book, Once The Horseman And Other Poems, in 1972, and a sophomore collection, After The Hard Hours, This Rain, in 1975. Writer Felix Cheong, 58, who described Nair as “one of the best poets of his generation” in a Facebook post, told ST that Nair was “surprised that someone from (Cheong’s) generation would know about his poetry” when Cheong approached Nair to contribute an essay for a book on Singapore poets, Idea To Ideal (2004).īorn in Kerala, India, in 1945, Nair moved to Singapore at the age of seven and studied at Raffles Institution – where he published his first poems in the school’s annual journal The Rafflesian – and then at the University of Singapore, where he received a Master of Science in marine biology.
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