Desmond Kon Wins Gold at 2016 Living Now Book Awards

The accolades keep stacking up for Singaporean poet and Kitaab’s Poetry Editor, Desmond Kon. With this win, Desmond has become the first writer in the world to have won three awards under the categories of Metaphysical, Inspirational Fiction, and Death & Dying at the US-based Living Now Book Awards.

This year, the anthology Ars Moriendi (Lien Foundation/Squircle Line Press), which Desmond edited, clinched the gold, beating Denna D. Babul and Karin Luise’s The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives (Penguin Random House-Avery) and Karen M. Wyatt’s What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying (Sunroom Studios).

Last year, his novel Singular Acts of Endearment (Grey Sparrow Press/Squircle Line Press) garnered the Silver award, while the hybrid work Babel Via Negativa (Ethos Books/Squircle Line Press) walked away with the Bronze.