Catherine lim autobiography meaning
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Catherine Lim
Singaporean fiction author (born )
Catherine Lim (林宝音) | |
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| Born | 21 March &#;() (age&#;82) Penang, British Malaya |
| Nationality | Singaporean |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, teacher |
| Notable work | Little Ironies: Short Stories of Singapore and Or Else, The Lightning God and Other Stories. |
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Catherine Lim Poh Imm (Chinese: 林宝音; pinyin: Lín Bǎoyīn, born 21 March ) is a Singaporean fiction author known for writing about Singapore society and of themes of traditional Chinese culture. Hailed as the "doyenne of Singapore writers",[1] Lim has published nine collections of short stories, five novels, two poetry collections, and numerous political commentaries to date.[2] Her social commentary in , titled The PAP and the people - A Great Affective Divide[3][4] and published in The Straits Times, criticised the ruling political party's agendas.
Career
[edit]Lim was born in Kulim (Malaya) and studie
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Interview with Catherine Lim
Catherine Lim Catherine Lim, born Chew Poh Imm in , in the small overseas Chinese frontier town of Kulim, in the Malaysian state of Kedah, is considered one of Singapore’s most widely read and internationally acclaimed writers. She emigrated to Singapore with her immediate family in and subsequently took up Singaporean nationality. She was educated in schools in Kulim, Kedah, and Penang before studying English Language and Literature at the University of Malaya and embarking on a career in teaching. Later she obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Linguistics from the University of Singapore and became a lecturer at the Regional Language Centre (RELC), Singapore, conducting courses in Sociolinguistics and the teaching of Literature for teachers in South East Asia. She became a full-time writer in but, to maintain her links with the academic and professional worlds, she continues to lecture at seminars and conferences both at home and abroad. Lim is the
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An Equal Joy: Reflections on God, Death and Belonging
"I have noticed, increasingly, that people after the age of 65 or thereabouts begin to experience the fear of death in a very palpable way. While in their childhood and ungdom they had viewed death as happening only to grandparents, while in mittpunkt age they could still afford to relegate death to fjärrstyrd corners of their consciousness where it could not intrude upon the pleasures of living, the advent of old age after 65 brings to them a deeply disturbing sense of mortality." So begins An lika Joy, a collection of essays in which award-winning author Catherine Lim undertakes a djärv and intense exploration into the fear of death, the natur of tro and the question of who we are. Drawing on her own experiences and myraid influences--from the Taoist "Sky God" of her childhood and the Christian God Jesus of her adulthood to forskare Pascal and philosopher Socrates; from något privat eller personligt conversations with close friends to the imagi