SINGAPORE — An Indian maker of solar-powered dryers, a soil carbon marketplace and groups that help make electric car batteries cleaner and bolster enforcement to deter illegal fishing were among 15 winners of the Earthshot prize. Launched by Britain’s Prince William, the prize was created to shore up solutions against our planet’s greatest environmental perils.

Marylyn Tan, 27, became the first woman in the prize’s 28-year history to win for English poetry. Her unapologetic debut collection, Gaze Back, takes on taboo topics from menstruation to sexuality and draws inspiration from French feminist thinker Helene Cixous’ essay The Laugh Of The Medusa.

Among the other winners was Shubigi Rao for her second win in English creative non-fiction for Pulp II: A Visual Bibliography Of The Banished Book, the follow-up to her decade-long project on book destruction. Epigram Books also scored two wins in Chinese fiction – Chia Joo Ming’s SG50-centric novel Kian Kok and Wong Koi Tet’s speculative short story collection Lion City. There were no winners in the Malay or Tamil categories but each won a merit prize.