Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski
Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski stands outside the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore, linking the waterfront to a major literary figure. Conrad wrote in English after learning Polish and French. The setting was once Singapore’s General Post Office, where ships’ officers reported after docking.
Between March 1883 and March 1888, Conrad visited Singapore during voyages through Southeast Asia as a merchant seaman. Singapore served as his home port for five months. As first mate of the steamboat Vidar, he travelled trading routes around West Borneo and Celebes, now Sulawesi.
Those maritime impressions entered stories including The End of the Tether, alongside Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. The plaque honours that Singapore connection to his fiction. Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Poland’s president, unveiled it outside the hotel on 24 February 2004.
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