Nadirah recently graduated from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts in English with Honours (Highest Distinction). She is passionate about world literature and postcolonial studies, focusing on marginalised narratives and decolonial thought, and is especially enthusiastic about exploring the dimensions of time and space in literary texts. Her winning entry is an abridged version of her undergraduate thesis, which explores these intersecting areas through an examination of the hidden complexities of Western temporal imperialism on colonised societies in Asian and African literature.

Nadirah is a recipient of the prestigious 2024 Anugerah Cemerlang MENDAKI Award and was previously a Highly Commended winner in the Literature category in 2023. She hopes to further her research on chronopolitics in postcolonial literature and plans to pursue postgraduate studies in 2025.