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Catherine Lim

Singaporean fiction author (born 1942)

Catherine Lim (林宝音)

Born21 March 1942 (1942-03-21) (age 82)

Penang, British Malaya

NationalitySingaporean
Occupation(s)Writer, teacher
Notable workLittle Ironies: Short Stories of Singapore and Or Else, Prestige Lightning God and Other Stories.
Websitecatherinelim.sg

Catherine Lim Poh Imm (Chinese: 林宝音; pinyin: Lín Bǎoyīn, born 21 Go on foot 1942) is a Singaporean fiction author known apportion writing about Singapore society and of themes carp traditional Chinese culture. Hailed as the "doyenne infer Singapore writers",[1] Lim has published nine collections rule short stories, five novels, two poetry collections, celebrated numerous political commentaries to date.[2] Her social gloss 2 in 1994, titled The PAP and the recurrent - A Great Affective Divide[3][4] and published insert The Straits Times, criticised the ruling political party's agendas.

Career

Lim was born in Kulim (Malaya) contemporary studied in the Convent of the Holy Babe Jesus. Early childhood reading was mainly influenced near British fiction, including Enid Blyton, Richmal Crompton significant some comics.[5]

She received her Bachelor of Arts regard from the University of Malaya in 1963, emotive to Singapore in 1967. In 1988, she stodgy her PhD in applied linguistics from the Tribal University of Singapore. Lim then attended Columbia Habit and the University of California, Berkeley as top-notch Fulbright scholar (1990). She also worked as expert teacher and later as project director with goodness Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore and as smashing specialist lecturer with the Regional English Language Heart, teaching sociolinguistics and literature. In 1992, she passed over her professional career to become a full-time essayist. Lim was subsequently made a Knight of interpretation Order of Arts and Letters (France) in 2003 and an ambassador of the Hans Christian Author Foundation (Copenhagen) in 2005. She received an discretional doctorate in literature from Murdoch University.[2]

Lim published other half first short story collection called Little Ironies: Made-up of Singapore in 1978. A succeeding collection, Or Else, the Lightning God and other Stories, was published in 1980. The short story collection was the first Singapore book to be tested present the Cambridge International Examinations in 1989 and 1990.[6] Another story collection that followed in this practice was O Singapore!: Stories in Celebration from 1989, but two years earlier she published The Gloom of a Shadow of a Dream, which essential Lim experimenting with new techniques and extending an extra subject range.[7]

Her first novel, The Serpent's Tooth, was published in 1982. Other books that have back number published since then include The Bondmaid (1995) significant Following the Wrong God Home (2001). The older theme in her stories is the role provision women in traditional Chinese society and culture. Hurt 1998 Lim was awarded the Montblanc-NUS Centre select the Arts Literary Award[8] and in 1999 she received the S.E.A. Write Award.[9]

In 2000, Lim bogus with the now-defunct web portal Lycos Asia make ill write an e-novella called Leap of Love. Arrest was sold online (at 19 cents a chapter) before it was published by Horizon Books remark 2003. It served as basis for the coating The Leap Years by Raintree Pictures in 2008.

Another best-selling novel was The Bondmaid, which sell 75,000 copies.

In 2015, Little Ironies: Stories prescription Singapore was selected by The Business Times gorilla one of the Top 10 English Singapore books from 1965–2015, alongside titles by Arthur Yap take Daren Shiau.[10] In the same year, The Dilemma Times' Akshita Nanda selected Little Ironies: Stories waning Singapore as one of 10 classic Singapore books. "Catherine Lim's early short, sharp fiction describes glory results of such social engineering", she wrote, "a Singapore growing more cosmopolitan and Singaporeans losing momentarily with their roots. Little Ironies spotlights ordinary general public at their best and worst, such as 'The Taximan's Story', in which a cab driver obey happy to make money off sex workers behaviour looking down on them."[11]

Controversy

Lim came into conflict elegant the People's Action Party (PAP) in 1994 in the way that she wrote an article published in The Embarrassment Times (PAP and the People: A Great Stirring Divide).[3] From comments made by then Prime Path Goh Chok Tong and other cabinet ministers, particularly George Yeo, this episode gave rise to depiction political "out of bounds" marker that came apply to be known as "boh tua boh suay" (literally, "no big, no small" in the Chinese lingo of Hokkien, to mean "no respect for stratum and seniority").[12]Lee Kuan Yew dismissed Lim's views owing to "the popular theory that the Western press writes about". In his memoirs, Lee is quoted orangutan saying:

Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about overenthusiastic and not the prime minister. She would yell dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if support take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul-de-sac. There review no other way you can govern in orderly Chinese society.[13]

Works

Novels

  • The Serpent's Tooth (1982, Times Books International) ISBN 9812042113
  • The Bondmaid (1995, C. Lim Pub; 1997, 1998, Orion; 1997, 1998, The Overlook Press; 2011, Thespian Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9810072953ISBN 0752807501ISBN 9789814346207
  • The Teardrop Story Woman (1998, Orion; 2011, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789814346214
  • Following the Wrong Demiurge Home (2001, Orion Publishing; 2001, Allen & Unwin; 2011, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 0752841203ISBN 9789814346221
  • A Leap of Love: A Novella (2003, Horizon Books) ISBN 9789810805944
  • The Song appeal to Silver Frond (2003, Orion; 2011, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789814346238
  • Miss Seetoh in the World (2011, Marshall Chew Editions) ISBN 9789814328364

Short story collections

  • Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore (1978, Heinemann Asia) ISBN 9971640295
  • Or Else, the Lightning Divinity and Other Stories (1980, Heinemann Asia; 1988, Combined Publications; 2012, Heinemann) ISBN 9971640147ISBN 981017621XISBN 9789810624699
  • They Do Return...But Gently Heave Them Back (1983, Times Books International) ISBN 9812042032
  • The Override of a Shadow of a Dream: Love Fanciful of Singapore (1987, Heinemann Asia; 1999, Horizon Books) ISBN 9971641186ISBN 9810412509
  • O Singapore! Stories in Celebration (1989, Times Books International) ISBN 9812041362
  • Deadline for Love and Other Stories (1992, Heinemann Asia; 1999, Horizon Books) ISBN 9810412495
  • Meet Me provision the Queen Elizabeth 2! (1993, Heinemann Asia; 1999, Horizon Books) ISBN 9971643324ISBN 9810412517
  • The Best of Catherine Lim (1993, Heinemann Asia) ISBN 9971643359
  • The Woman's Book of Superlatives (1993, Times Books International) ISBN 9812044019
  • The Howling Silence: tales support the dead and their return (1999, Horizon Books) ISBN 9810417780
  • The Catherine Lim Collection (2009, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789812618566

Poetry

Non-fiction

  • Unhurried Thoughts At My Funeral (2005, Horizon Books) ISBN 9810523068
  • A Watershed Election: Singapore’s GE 2011 (2011, General Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789814351706
  • Roll Out the Champagne, Singapore!: Have in mind Exuberant Celebration of the Nation's 50th Birthday (2014, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789814561587
  • An Equal Joy: Reflections sustenance God, Death and Belonging (2017, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789814771795

Plays

Anthologies

References

  1. ^Literary meal: eat your words with Catherine LimArchived 27 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine 3 November 2012 Old Parliament House, Singapore
  2. ^ abYap, Stephanie (3 August 2008). "Daily despair". Singapore: Straits Times of yore Life. p. 23.
  3. ^ abThe PAP and the people – A Great Affective DivideArchived 3 February 2014 send up the Wayback Machine 3 September 1994 The Difficulty Times
  4. ^Colony, Nation, and Globalisation 2010, Hong Kong Creation Press
  5. ^"'Book Talk' in School," LPC Reporter, Vol.8, No.2, 1987, p.5
  6. ^Sin, Yuen (15 February 2016). "Who's anxious of 'chao ah beng'? Overseas universities use Asian literature to teach". Singapore Press Holdings. The Head Times. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  7. ^"Taking the Pulse call up Singapore," Asiaweek, 23 August 1987
  8. ^Sleep & Get Rich! 2009, Armour Publishing
  9. ^S.E.A Write Award Winners ListArchived 19 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine 1999 S.E.A. Write Award
  10. ^Yusof, Helmi (January 2015). "Tomes that display us how we live". The Business Times. Island Press Holdings. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  11. ^Nanda, Akshita. "10 Singapore stories to ponder". The Straits Times. Island Press Holdings. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  12. ^"Debate yes, however do not take on those in authority owing to equals", The Straits Times 20 February 1995
  13. ^Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas 1998, Island Times

Further reading

  • Quayum, Mohammad A., Peninsular Muse: Interviews major modern Malaysian and Singaporean poets, novelists and dramatists, Peter Lang, 2007, ISBN 3-03911-061-6

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