to the brother

if by "the great singaporean writer" your professor was referring to the most well-known singaporean writer, then by virtue of the fact that everything is, unfortunately, relative, then yes, someone has to win, and that someone would probably be either catherine "i've never seen an '-ism' that i didn't like" lim or hwee hwee "hwee and ran all the way home" tan of mammon inc. [in]fam[e][y]. if he was asking whether there are any singaporean writers of actual merit, i would personally have been stymied and would have had to take the fifth, lest reader-response theorists descended upon me in belligerent droves claiming oppression and demanding their voice.