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| x Leslie Charteris | The Saint Goes On | Person |
Leslie Charteris (May 12 1907, Singapore– April 15 1993), born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, was a half-Chinese, half English author of primarily mystery fiction, as well as a screenwriter. He was best known for his many books chronicling the...
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| Catch the Saint | Film writer | |||
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| The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace | TV Program Creator | |||
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| x Alvin Pang |
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Alvin Pang (Chinese: 冯啟明; born 1972, Singapore) was named 2005 Young Artist of the Year (Literature) by the National Arts Council Singapore. He holds First Class Honours in Literature from the University of York and an Honorary Fellowship in Writing...
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| x Cyril Wong |
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Cyril Wong (born 1977) is the author of seven published collections of poetry and one collection of prose.
Born in 1977, Cyril Wong attended Saint Patrick's School, Singapore and Temasek Junior College, before pursuing a degree of Doctor of...
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Mammon Inc. | Person |
Hwee Hwee Tan (or Tan Hwee Hwee in traditional order; Tan is the family name) is a Singaporean writer.
She was born in Singapore in 1974. During her youth she spent three years in the Netherlands. At first she studied English Literature at the...
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Different Strokes | Person |
David Leo is a writer in Singapore. Leo received a Publishers Prize for Ah … The Fragrance of Durians & Other Stories in 1993, a (Singapore) National Book Department Council Book Awards for works in English in 1994 for The Sins of the Father and...
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| x Alfian Sa'at | Corridor | Person |
Alfian bin Sa'at (born July 18, 1977) is a Singaporean writer, poet and playwright. He is a Muslim of Minangkabau, Javanese and Hakka descent,. He is known for his provocative works and is often referred to as his country's enfant terrible.
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| x Gopal Baratham | Figments of Experience | Person |
Gopal Baratham was a Singaporean author and neurosurgeon. He was known for his frank style and his ability to write about topics that were often considered controversial in the conservative city-state.
Born to a physician and a nurse, Baratham...
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| A candle or the sun | Surgeon | |||
| Sayang | Physician | |||
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| x Chandran Nair |
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Chandran Nair is a Singaporean poet and retired Director and Mediator of UNESCO in Paris.
Nair was born in Kerala, India in 1945. He left India for Singapore at the age of seven. His father, Villayil Raman Gopala Pillai who wrote short stories and...
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| x Alex Au |
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Alex Au Waipang, also known by his Internet nom de plume as Yawning Bread, is part of the Singapore gay equality movement.
He is the author of a website, where he provides analyses of Singaporean politics, culture, gay issues and miscellaneous...
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| x Felix Cheong | Person |
Felix Cheong is a Singaporean poet who was born Felix Cheong Seng Fei.
He was educated at the National University of Singapore where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in 1990, and at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he obtained a Master of...
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| x Goh Sin Tub |
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Goh Sin Tub (simplified Chinese: 吴信达; pinyin: Wú Xìndá) was a well-known pioneer of Singaporean literature. He was a prolific writer of numerous book titles, which includes bestsellers like the The Nan-Mei-Su Girls of Emerald Hill, The Ghost Lover...
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| x Goh Poh Seng | Person |
Goh Poh Seng, Singaporean dramatist, novelist and poet, was born in Malaya in 1936. He received his medical degree from University College Dublin, and practised medicine in Singapore for twenty-five years. In his time living in Singapore, Dr Goh...
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| x H.C. Matthew Sim | Person |
H. C. Matthew Sim, a resident of Singapore, is the author of two business books and the coauthor of another.
He received his PhD from the University of South Australia, his B.E. (First Class Honours) from the University of Queensland, and his MBA...
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| x Wilfred Hamilton-Shimmen | Person |
Wilfred Hamilton-Shimmen who was born in Singapore to an English colonial father and a mother of Dutch, Portuguese and Malay lineage in 1940. He is the author of the novel Seasons of Darkness, poem writer of "The Reef" (which was published...
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| x Han Lao Da |
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Han Lao Da (simplified Chinese: 韩劳达; pinyin: Hán Láo Dá) is a Singaporean playwright, as well as founder and principal of Han Language Centre. Han received the Cultural Medallion for his contributions in the Singaporean drama scene, and is also...
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| x Bonny Hicks |
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Bonny Hicks (5 January 1968 - 19 December 1997) was a Singaporean catwalk model who gained her greatest notoriety for her contributions to Singaporean post-colonial literature and the philosophy conveyed in her works. Her first book, Excuse Me, are...
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| x Neil Humphreys | Person |
Neil Humphreys (born London, England, 5 December 1974) is a British humour columnist and author of three best-selling humorous books about Singapore - Notes From an Even Smaller Island (2001), Scribbles from the Same Island (2003) and Final Notes...
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| x Philip Jeyaretnam | Person |
Philip Antony Jeyaretnam (born 1964) is a lawyer from Singapore. He is a Senior Counsel in Singapore, and President of the Singapore Law Society. He is also well known as a fiction writer. He is the younger son of the late veteran Singaporean...
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| x Koh Buck Song |
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Koh Buck Song is a writer and communications consultant in Singapore. He was born in 1963.
He has taught a Master in Public Management course in leadership as an Adjunct Associate Professor of leadership at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,...
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| x Aaron Lee | Person |
Aaron Lee Soon Yong (born 7 June 1972 in Malaysia) is a Singaporean prize-winning poet who writes in English.
Aaron began writing poetry during his days at Raffles Institution, a secondary school in Singapore where he befriended other students who...
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| x James Lee | Person |
James Lee (pseudonym for Jim Aitchison; born 1947 in Australia) is a Singaporean author.
Aitchison is a Singapore Permanent Resident, and the Australian has been living in Singapore since 1983. Before he became a full-time writer, Aitchison was a...
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| x Russell Lee | True Singapore Ghost Stories | Person |
Russell Lee is the author of True Singapore Ghost Stories, a series of books that has been among the most popular source of ghost stories in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong ever since Book 1 was released in 1989.
As of July 2009, the 19...
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| x Lee Tzu Pheng | Person |
Lee Tzu Pheng was born (May 13, 1946) and educated in Singapore. She has a Ph.D in English from the University of Singapore from where she has recently retired as a Senior Lecturer in its English Department. She has four volumes of poems to her name...
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| x Liang Wern Fook |
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Dr Liang Wern Fook (simplified Chinese: 梁文福; pinyin: Liáng Wénfú; born 1964 in Singapore) is a Singaporean writer, musician, and researcher in Chinese literature and pedagogy. He was one of the pioneer figures in the xinyao (Singaporean Chinese folk...
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| x Catherine Lim |
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Catherine Lim (simplified Chinese: 林宝音; pinyin: Lín Bǎoyīn) is a best-selling Singaporean fiction author known for writing about Singapore society and of themes of traditional Chinese culture. Hailed as the "doyenne of Singapore writers", Lim has...
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| x Su-Chen Christine Lim | Person |
Su-Chen Christine Lim (born 1948) was born in Malaysia and had her early education at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) in Penang and Kedah. At the age of 14 she migrated to Singapore with her parents and two brothers, and continued her...
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| x Kenneth Lyen | Person |
Dr. Kenneth Lyen, an Oxford Alumnus, is a renowned pediatrician currently practicing in Singapore. He has a clinic at Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
A founding president of the Margaret Drive and the Balestier Special Schools for disabled children and...
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| x K.K. Seet | Person |
Dr Seet Khiam Keong, better known as "K.K. Seet", is an academic, writer and theatre director from Singapore. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He...
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| x Sim Yee Chiang | Person |
Sim Yee Chiang is a Singaporean short story writer, playwright, and librettist.
Sim was born and raised in Singapore and was educated at Hwa Chong Junior College. He then moved to California, where he attended Stanford University.
Sim's writing has...
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| x Damien Sin | Person |
Damien Sin is a Singaporean author. He has written several books published by the Angsana Books imprint of Flame of the Forest publishers:
Sin was also the frontman of the band, Fairweather Friends, whose music appeared on various Pony Canyon...
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| x Adrian Tan | Person |
Adrian Tan is a lawyer and author from Singapore. He is best known as the writer of the fiction novels The Teenage Textbook and The Teenage Workbook, which were bestsellers in Singapore in the late-1980s.
Tan wrote the two novels while he was an...
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| x Tan Swie Hian |
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Tan Swie Hian (simplified Chinese: 陈瑞献; pinyin: Chén Ruìxiàn) is a Singaporean multidisciplinary artist known for his contemporary Chinese calligraphy, chinese poetry and contemporary art sculptures found in Singapore and many parts of the world....
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| x Denyse Tessensohn | Person |
Denyse Tessensohn is a writer in Singapore who has won a commendation award of the Singapore Literature Prize in 1994 for her work, Feel.
She used to contribute a daily column to the Today newspaper known as "Say It Right". In this column, she...
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| x Edwin Thumboo |
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Edwin Nadason Thumboo (born 22 November 1933) is an award-winning Singaporean poet and academic who is regarded as one of the pioneers of English literature in Singapore.
Thumboo graduated in English from the University of Malaya in 1956. Although...
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| x Sylvia Toh Paik Choo | Person |
Sylvia Toh Paik Choo is a newspaper columnist and humour writer from Singapore. She is the author of Eh Goondu! (1982) and Lagi Goondu! (1986), the first two books on Singlish. She was the first to put a spelling and punctuation to Singlish.
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| x Villayil Raman Gopala Pillai |
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VR Gopala Pillai (1915-1981) was a Singaporean novelist writing in Malayalam under the nom de plume G.P. Njekkad, after his natal village in Kerala.
Married to Bhargavi Pillai, he migrated to Singapore from Kerala, India in 1947. He had five...
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| x Eleanor Wong | Person |
Eleanor Wong is a writer and playwright in Singapore. Her plays have been produced in Singapore and regionally. She is best known for "Invitation to Treat", her trilogy of plays centred around the experiences of the character Ellen Toh, a lesbian...
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| x Arthur Yap |
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Arthur Yap (simplified Chinese: 叶纬雄; pinyin: Yè WěiXióng) was a Singaporean poet and a painter.
He was born in Singapore, the sixth child of a carpenter and a housewife. Yap attended St Andrew's School and the University of Singapore, after which he...
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| x Robert Yeo |
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Robert Yeo (born Robert Yeo Cheng Chuan in 1940) is a Singaporean poet, playwright and novelist.
Yeo is a retired lecturer of the National Institute of Education and Nanyang Technological University. At present he is a teacher of Creative Writing at...
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| x Boey Kim Cheng | Person |
Boey Kim Cheng (born 1965) is a Singaporean poet.
He is of Chinese descent. As a student he won the National University of Singapore Poetry Competition and has since received the National Arts Council's Young Artist Award (1996). He currently...
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| x Mark Chan | Musical Artist |
Mark Chan (born 1958) is a Singaporean composer, recording artist, singer, instrumentalist, poet and painter. He is recognised as one of Singapore's premier composers, particularly for his unique blend of Eastern and Western styles of music. Mark is...
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| x Lee Run Hu | Person |
Lee Run Hu (simplified Chinese: 李润湖; pinyin: Lǐ RùnHú) (1913 - 1947) was a Singaporean writer and poet who was remembered for his immense contributions to the development of Chinese literature and literary writing in Malaya between 1919 - 1965. He...
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| x Lin Hsin Hsin | Person |
Lin Hsin Hsin is an artist, poet and composer from Singapore, deeply rooted in mathematics, information technology. She established the early virtual museum website, the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum, in 1994.
Hsin Hsin was born in Singapore. She...
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| x Ng Yi-Sheng |
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Ng Yi-Sheng (born 1980) is a Singaporean writer. He has published a collection of his poems entitled "last boy" and a documentary book on gay, lesbian and bisexual Singaporeans called SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century in 2006.
Ng lived in...
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| x Daren Shiau | Person |
Daren Shiau (born 1971, Singapore), a novelist, poet, conservationist and lawyer in private practice qualified in Singapore, England and Wales, has been described by The Arts Magazine as "among the most exciting of the post-1965 generation of...
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The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East | Person |
Kishore Mahbubani (born 1948, Singapore) is dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. From 1971 to 2004 he served in the Singaporean Foreign Service, ending up as Singapore's Ambassador to the United...
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| x Chay Yew | Person |
Chay Yew is a playwright and stage director who was born in Singapore. As of 2007 he lives in New York City.
Yew's plays include As if He Hears, Porcelain, A Language of Their Own, Red, A Beautiful Country, Wonderland, Question 27, Question 28, and...
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| x Louis Theroux |
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Louis Sebastian Theroux (born 20 May 1970 in Singapore) is a British-American broadcaster best known for his Gonzo style journalism on the television series Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends and When Louis Met...
Theroux was born in Singapore, the...
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| x Rohan Gunaratna |
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Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror | Person |
Rohan Gunaratna (born 1961) is an international terrorism expert. He is the head of the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. By its size, ICPVTR is one of the...
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| x Kuo Pao Kun | Person |
Kuo Pao Kun (simplified Chinese: 郭宝崑; pinyin: Guō Bǎokūn) was a playwright, theatre director, and arts activist in Singapore who wrote and directed both Mandarin and English plays. He founded three arts and drama centres in Singapore, conducted and...
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| x Michael Chiang | Army Daze | Person |
Michael Chiang (born 1955 in Malaysia) is a prolific playwright of the '80s and '90s art scene in Singapore. He wrote Army Daze and Beauty World.
He is also editorial director of Mediacorp Publishing, which publishes 8 Days (magazine).
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| x James Villanueva | Person |
James Villanueva is the director and owner of J. Villanueva's English Language and Adult Language Centre in Singapore. The Centre began in 1984 as a language specialist research and development establishment dedicated to providing students with the...
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| x Tan Tarn How | Person |
Tan Tarn How is a Singaporean playwright and senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore). He has written six plays, which have been staged in Singapore and Hongkong. His plays have won numerous awards.
Tan Tarn How...
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| x Lee Kuan Yew |
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Keeping my Mandarin alive | Person |
Lee Kuan Yew, Honorary GCMG, Honorary CH (Chinese: 李光耀; pinyin: Lǐ Guāngyào; POJ: Lí Kng-iāu; born 16 September 1923; also Harry Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Kwan-Yew) is a former Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore. He was the first person to hold...
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| From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000, Singapore and the Asian Economic Boom | Politician | |||
| Fracture and Strength, 90 | Lawyer | |||
| Lee Kuan Yew in his own words | Chivalric Order Member | |||
| Commonwealth: a continuity of association after Empire | Ontology Instance | |||
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