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Suffian Hakim
Suffian Hakim is a Singaporean writer and media professional. He has written two novels.

Biography
Suffian started writing at a young age. He cites early validation as a writer coming at ten years old, when his school submitted his creative composition for a national essay competition. While studying at St Joseph's Institution, he wrote a dramatic sketch that won first place in a school competition. This gave him early inspiration to pursue writing as a career.

However, he then attended St Andrew's Junior College, where he studied mathematics, chemistry, and economics instead of literature. Upon failing his GCE 'A' levels, Suffian attended Ngee Ann Polytechnic, graduating in 2009 with a Diploma in Mass Communication.

During his polytechnic studies, he attended an acting module taught by Singaporean actor and director Alaric Tay.

Suffian works as a media professional. He has worked as a screenwriter for Mediacorp productions The Noose and Random Island, and also written for August Man magazine.

He lists novelists Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman and Douglas Adams as his creative influences.

Literary Career
Described as "one of the most whimsical, creative and unpretentious young voices in Singapore literature", Suffian began dabbling in writing satire while in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, uploading Little Red Riding Tudung and Three Shades of Brown (a parody of Fifty Shades of Grey) to his blog.

He also started writing a parody of Harry Potter where the main character is re-cast as Singaporean Malay during this time, also uploading it to his blog. The stories were then shared widely on social media in Singapore when they were re-launched online in 2013.

Suffian then decided to publish the blog posts into a novel. Following an extensive crowdfunding effort, Suffian self-published 300 copies of Harris bin Potter and the Stoned Publisher (2015) as one of Publishizer's first book project efforts.

Harris bin Potter was then re-printed with 500 copies, and has since also enjoyed a third print run. It was then re-published by Epigram Books in October 2018.

In 2017, Suffian self-published his second novel, The Minorities, before it was picked up by Epigram Books in October 2018. While maintaining his trademark levity, the novel takes on issues such as ethnicity, immigration, and assimilation in its underlying social commentary.

In 2017, he was also second runner-up for the Esquire x Montblanc Fiction Writer Prize.

Novels

 * Harris bin Potter and the Stoned Philosopher (self-published, 2015) ISBN 9789810792671
 * The Minorities (self-published, 2017; Epigram, 2017) ISBN 9789811140242

Awards

 * 2017
 * Esquire x Montblanc Fiction Prize
 * Runner-up
 * Esquire x Montblanc Fiction Prize
 * Runner-up

Category:1987 births Category:Singaporean people Category:Singaporean people of Javanese descent Category:Singaporean writers Category:Singaporean novelists Category:St Joseph's Institution alumni Category:St Andrew's Junior College alumni Category:Ngee Ann Polytechnic alumni