The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong by Suchen Christine Lim

Her latest publication is The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong. Awarded a Fulbright Grant, she was an International Writing Fellow and Writer-in-Residence of the University of Iowa, and a Fellow in Creative Writing in Nanyang Technological University. Another novel, The River’s Song was listed in “100 Best Books of 2015” by Kirkus Reviews (USA).

Books for the Country Price One Shilling: Flax and Hemp, Their Culture and. Stories of the unsung, unsaid and uncelebrated in Singapore Christine Lim Suchen. Suchen Christine Lim has written fifteen children’s picture books,two short-story collections, one non-fiction work, a short play, and five novels including Fistful of Colours, which was awarded the inaugural Singapore Literature Prize, and was selected by The Sunday Times as one of 10 classic Singapore novels. Lim Khoy Hing, The southern platform: or, Manual of southern sentiment on the. In turn, the books and stories we create have an imperative to make our people, culture, land and history visible to children.ĪFCC 2018 features award-winning author Suchen Christine Lim, who will deliver the Children's Literature Lecture: Nurturing Roots of Self & Culture in Our Children Through Stories About Us. Without the stories, poems, pictures or music of their own country, children are figuratively malnourished. Singapore Night & 50th Anniversary Celebrations A mother finds out her son is gay a daughter finds out her two mothers are lesbians a niece stumbles upon the body of her dead uncle dressed in his wife’s sarong kebaya and an old man’s nascent feelings for a Filipino maid lead him back to his suppressed art.Kwan Shan Mei: Drawing From The Heart (Exhibition) Lim has also written several books for child- ren, one of which has been. In The Man Who Wore His Wifes Sarong Singapore Literature Prize winner Suchen Christine Lim tells stories of the unsaid, unsung and uncelebrated that strip.

The Man Who Wore His Wife’s Sarong by Suchen Christine Lim