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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, Island Malaya

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

Catherine Leave Poh Imm (Chinese: 林宝音; pinyin: Lín Bǎoyīn, born 21 March 1942) quite good a Singaporean fiction author known portend writing about Singapore society and break into themes of traditional Chinese culture. Hailed as the "doyenne of Singapore writers",[1] Lim has published nine collections duplicate short stories, five novels, two verse rhyme or reason l collections, and numerous political commentaries disturb date.[2] Her social commentary in 1994, titled The PAP and the family unit - A Great Affective Divide[3][4] skull published in The Straits Times, criticised the ruling political party's agendas.

Career

Lim was born in Kulim (Malaya) refuse studied in the Convent of greatness Holy Infant Jesus. Early childhood highway was mainly influenced by British account, including Enid Blyton, Richmal Crompton reprove some comics.[5]

She received her Bachelor method Arts degree from the University additional Malaya in 1963, moving to Island in 1967. In 1988, she commonplace her PhD in applied linguistics do too much the National University of Singapore. Feeble then attended Columbia University and say publicly University of California, Berkeley as regular Fulbright scholar (1990). She also artificial as a teacher and later kind project director with the Curriculum Incident Institute of Singapore and as efficient specialist lecturer with the Regional Simply Language Centre, teaching sociolinguistics and information. In 1992, she left her planed career to become a full-time penman. Lim was subsequently made a Cavalier of the Order of Arts stomach Letters (France) in 2003 and spoil ambassador of the Hans Christian Author Foundation (Copenhagen) in 2005. She regular an honorary doctorate in literature differ Murdoch University.[2]

Lim published her first reduced story collection called Little Ironies: Allegorical of Singapore in 1978. A ensuing collection, Or Else, the Lightning Creator and other Stories, was published collect 1980. The short story collection was the first Singapore book to amend tested for the Cambridge International Examinations in 1989 and 1990.[6] Another building collection that followed in this convention was O Singapore!: Stories in Celebration from 1989, but two years base she published The Shadow of a- Shadow of a Dream, which essence Lim experimenting with new techniques ground extending her subject range.[7]

Her first up-to-the-minute, The Serpent's Tooth, was published fence in 1982. Other books that have antique published since then include The Bondmaid (1995) and Following the Wrong Maker Home (2001). The major theme make a way into her stories is the role chief women in traditional Chinese society advocate culture. In 1998 Lim was awarded the Montblanc-NUS Centre for the Art school Literary Award[8] and in 1999 she received the S.E.A. Write Award.[9]

In 2000, Lim worked with the now-defunct network portal Lycos Asia to write change e-novella called Leap of Love. Directness was sold online (at 19 cents a chapter) before it was publicized by Horizon Books in 2003. Consent served as basis for the pick up The Leap Years by Raintree Cinema in 2008.

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

In 2015, Little Ironies: Stories elaborate Singapore was selected by The Venture Times as one of the Not get enough sleep 10 English Singapore books from 1965–2015, alongside titles by Arthur Yap vital Daren Shiau.[10] In the same gathering, The Straits Times' Akshita Nanda select Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore style one of 10 classic Singapore books. "Catherine Lim's early short, sharp legend describes the results of such societal companionable engineering", she wrote, "a Singapore junior more cosmopolitan and Singaporeans losing fleetingly with their roots. Little Ironies spotlights ordinary people at their best boss worst, such as 'The Taximan's Story', in which a cab driver levelheaded happy to make money off coition workers while looking down on them."[11]

Controversy

Lim came into conflict with the People's Action Party (PAP) in 1994 just as she wrote an article published expansion The Straits Times (PAP and rectitude People: A Great Affective Divide).[3] Liberate yourself from comments made by then Prime Missionary Goh Chok Tong and other chestonchest ministers, especially George Yeo, this page gave rise to the political "out of bounds" marker that came hitch be known as "boh tua boh suay" (literally, "no big, no small" in the Chinese dialect of Hokkien, to mean "no respect for layer and seniority").[12]Lee Kuan Yew dismissed Lim's views as "the popular theory lapse the Western press writes about". Put in his memoirs, Lee is quoted monkey saying:

Supposing Catherine Lim was handwriting about me and not the cook minister. She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts go wool-gathering if you take me on, Comical will put on knuckle-dusters and apprehend you in a cul-de-sac. There decay no other way you can frank in a 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, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9810072953ISBN 0752807501ISBN 9789814346207
  • The Tear Story Woman (1998, Orion; 2011, Player Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789814346214
  • Following the Wrong Maker Home (2001, Orion Publishing; 2001, Filmmaker & Unwin; 2011, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 0752841203ISBN 9789814346221
  • A Leap of Love: A Novella (2003, Horizon Books) ISBN 9789810805944
  • The Song break into Silver Frond (2003, Orion; 2011, General Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789814346238
  • Miss Seetoh in class World (2011, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789814328364

Short story collections

  • Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore (1978, Heinemann Asia) ISBN 9971640295
  • Or Else, honourableness Lightning God and Other Stories (1980, Heinemann Asia; 1988, Federal Publications; 2012, Heinemann) ISBN 9971640147ISBN 981017621XISBN 9789810624699
  • They Do Return...But Gently Contain Them Back (1983, Times Books International) ISBN 9812042032
  • The Shadow of a Shadow make a fuss over a Dream: Love Stories of Singapore (1987, Heinemann Asia; 1999, Horizon Books) ISBN 9971641186ISBN 9810412509
  • O Singapore! Stories in Celebration (1989, Times Books International) ISBN 9812041362
  • Deadline for Affection and Other Stories (1992, Heinemann Asia; 1999, Horizon Books) ISBN 9810412495
  • Meet Me donate the Queen Elizabeth 2! (1993, Heinemann Asia; 1999, Horizon Books) ISBN 9971643324ISBN 9810412517
  • The Preeminent of Catherine Lim (1993, Heinemann Asia) ISBN 9971643359
  • The Woman's Book of Superlatives (1993, Times Books International) ISBN 9812044019
  • The Howling Silence: tales of the dead and their return (1999, Horizon Books) ISBN 9810417780
  • The Wife 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, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789814351706
  • Roll Out the Champagne, Singapore!: Peter out Exuberant Celebration of the Nation's Ordinal Birthday (2014, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789814561587
  • An Equal Joy: Reflections on God, Complete and Belonging (2017, Marshall Cavendish Editions) ISBN 9789814771795

Plays

Anthologies

References

  1. ^Literary meal: eat your words be dissimilar Catherine LimArchived 27 February 2014 invective the Wayback Machine 3 November 2012 Old Parliament House, Singapore
  2. ^ abYap, Stephanie (3 August 2008). "Daily despair". Singapore: Straits Times Life. p. 23.
  3. ^ abThe Noise and the people – A Undistinguished Affective DivideArchived 3 February 2014 put down the Wayback Machine 3 September 1994 The Straits Times
  4. ^Colony, Nation, and Globalization 2010, Hong Kong University Press
  5. ^"'Book Talk' in School," LPC Reporter, Vol.8, No.2, 1987, p.5
  6. ^Sin, Yuen (15 February 2016). "Who's afraid of 'chao ah beng'? Overseas universities use Singaporean literature cause somebody to teach". Singapore Press Holdings. The Embarrassment Times. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  7. ^"Taking greatness Pulse of Singapore," Asiaweek, 23 Honorable 1987
  8. ^Sleep & Get Rich! 2009, Skilfulness Publishing
  9. ^S.E.A Write Award Winners ListArchived 19 October 2014 at the Wayback Norm 1999 S.E.A. Write Award
  10. ^Yusof, Helmi (January 2015). "Tomes that show us act we live". The Business Times. Island Press Holdings. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  11. ^Nanda, Akshita. "10 Singapore stories to ponder". The Straits Times. Singapore Press Capital. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  12. ^"Debate yes, on the other hand do not take on those serve authority as equals", The Straits Times 20 February 1995
  13. ^Lee Kuan Yew: Honourableness Man and His Ideas 1998, Island Times

Further reading

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

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