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(From left) Yeoh Gim Suan, Bernice Chauly, Kuan
Guat Choo, Datuk Wong Sulong, MPH Group Publishing’s Ivy Tan (representing Tun
Dr Mahathir Mohamad) and Hanley Chew.
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As a past winner for the Popular-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards
(2009, Lovers and Strangers Revisited, fiction)
and also a nominee (2010 Tropical Affairs, nonfiction) I know what it feels
like to be present when they call your name as the winner, and also the let
down when they don’t call your name.
This year the honor for
fiction went to Hotel Tales by
Hanley Chew, who collaborated on the book with writer Choy Ee Ling.
Second prize winner was 4...5...6
by Kuan Guat Choo, a friend of mine who has been nominated several times now
and finally wins! Congrats!
The third prize winner is Melody
of Love & Other Stories by Yeoh Gim Suan.
For nonfiction, the winner
was A Doctor In The House: The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad by former Prime Minister Tun Dr
Mahathir Mohamad.
Second place was Notes
To The Prime Minister: The Untold Story Of How Malaysia Beat The Currency
Speculators by Datuk Wong
Sulong.
In third place Growing
Up With Ghosts by Bernice Chauly, another friend
Here are the ten nominees
for both categories (in no particular order) as listed in The Star:
Fiction
1. Hotel Tales by Hanley Chew
2. 4...5...6 by Kuan Guat Choo
3. Malaysian Tales: Retold & Remixed by Daphne Lee
4. Bitter-Sweet Harvest by Chan Ling Yap
5. Melody Of Love & Other Stories by Yeoh Gim Suan
6. The Dulang Washer by Paul Callan
7. The Female Cell by Rumaizah Abu Bakar
8. DUKE: Inspector Misla & The DUKExpressway Murders by Rozlan Mohd Noor
9. Malacca: A Romance by Kamsiah M. Bostock
10. The Amok Of Mat Solo by Salleh Ben Joned
Non-fiction
1. A Doctor In The House by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
2. Teohlogy by Patrick Teoh
3. Notes To The Prime Minister by Wong Sulong
4. Kopitiam Chit Chat by Peggy Tan Pek Tao
5. Unmistakably Chinese, Genuinely Malaysian by Rita Sim
6. Patriots & Pretenders: The Malayan Peoples’ Independence Struggle by Kua Kia Soong
7. A Map Of Trengganu by Awang Goneng
8. Found In Malaysia (Vol. 2) by The Nut Graph
9. Coming Of Age: A Decade Of Essays 2001-2011 by Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad
10. Growing Up With Ghosts by Bernice Chauly
Here are links to some
of my author-to-author interviews of first novelists:
Golda
Mowe author of Iban Dream and Iban Journey.
Preeta
Samarasan author of Evening is the Whole Day.
Chuah
Guat Eng, author of Echoes of Silence and Days
of Change.
Plus:
Five part Maugham
and Me series
Beheaded on
Road to Nationhood: Sarawak Reclaimed—Part
I
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