Shirley Lim

Shirley Lim was born in Melaka, Malaysia into a life of poverty, deprivation, parental violence, and abandonment in a culture that, at that time, rarely recognized girls as individuals, Lim had a pretty unhappy childhood.

Lim had her early education at Infant Jesus Convent under the British Colonial education system. She won a federal scholarship to the University Of Malaya, where she earned B.A first class honours degree in English. In 1969, at the age of twenty-four, she entered graduate school at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts under Fullbright scholarship, and received a P.H.D in English and American Literature in 1973.

Lim is married to Charles Bazerman who are also a professor and chair of the Education Department at University of California, Santa Barbara. Lim is a professor in English Department at the University Of California, Santa Barbara and has also taught internationally at the National University of Singapore, the National institute Education of Nanyang Technology University, and was the chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong where she also taught poetry and creative writing. she has authored several books of poems, short stories, and criticism, and serves as editor and co-editor of numerous scholarly works.

Books of poetry and short stories

"Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems" (1980)
"Another Country" (1982)
"Life's Mysteries" (1985)
"No Man's Grove and Other Poems" (1985)
"Modern Secret: New and Selected Poems" (1989)
"Monsoon History" (1994)
"Two Dreams: New and Selected Stories" (1997)
"What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say" (1998)

Malaysian Writer

New Malaysian writers for each of the  5 genre:

1)novel-Tan Twan Eng  "The Garden of Evening"
Tan Twan Eng is a Malaysian author of Fiction born in Penang 1972. Tan studied law at the University of London, and later worked as an advocate and solocitor in one of K.L's law firms before becoming a full-time writer.

2)short story-Shirley Geok Lim "Journey"
 Shirley Geok-lin Lim was born in Malacca Malaysia. She is an American writer of poetry,fiction, and criticism. She was married to Charles Bazerman and studied in University Of Malaya, Brandeis University.

3)poem- Nadira Ilana “Bare Hand”

Recently, She was a Film Director at Freelance
before that, she was the assistant producer at Apparat and Curatorial Volunteer at Queensland Art Gallery.

4)Drama-Noordin Hassan  “Mask” 
 Nordin was born on 18 Jan 1929 at Jalan Hatin, Pulau pinang. he started his studies at Sekolah Melayu Perak Road, Pulau Pinang and later extended the studies at Penang Free School.

5)Other(autobiography)- Mahathir Mohamad “A Doctor in the House: The Memoirs of Tun Dr     Mahathir Mohamad”

Mahathir Bin Mohamad is a malaysian politician who was the forth prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the post for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, making him Malaysian's longest serving Prime Minister. His political career spanned almost 40 years. He was born on July 10, 1925( age 88 ), at Alor Setar. He was married to Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali and blessed with 7 children.