Kuala Lampur, Jan. 17 -- Malaysian writer Joshua Kam has won Singapore's Epigram Books Fiction Prize after it was opened for submissions to Asean writers for the first time this year.

The 23-year-old was the youngest to win the award, that was previously restricted to Singapore citizens and permanent residents.

The award, presented yesterday during a gala dinner at a Singapore hotel, carries a prize money of S$25,000 (RM75,400).

Kam's debut book will be published in the second half of 2020.

Singapore daily The Straits Times reported that Kam won for his manuscript How The Man In Green Saved Pahang, And Possibly The World, in which two characters, Gabriel and Lydia, go on a cross-country race against time in an attempt to prevent the e...