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Cyber & Technology April 18, 2026 391 stories in this edition

How a stay-at-home mum spent 3 hours each morning writing her first novel – and won a prize for it

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How a stay-at-home mum spent 3 hours each morning writing her first novel – and won a prize for it

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Raised on her father’s improvised bedtime stories and encouraged early on in school, Ratna Damayanti Taha wrote her debut novel Mind The Gap, about a Malay girl growing up in Singapore, which went on to win the 2026 Epigram Books Fiction Prize.

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Raised on her father’s improvised bedtime stories and encouraged early on in school, Ratna Damayanti Taha wrote her debut novel Mind The Gap, about a Malay girl growing up in Singapore, which went on to win the 2026 Epig...

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