Feel proud to be featured in POPCLUB this month, a magazine that's exclusively for Malaysia Popular (bookstore) card members. I was featured their once before back in 2009, though they had me looking the other way!
Here's a link to the recent KL
Bookfest Workshop that I did with several other writers for Popular in July.
Here is also a link to
Lovers and Strangers Revisited -- 20 years!
Hmmm...with the 25-year anniversary of the original publication of
Lovers and Strangers by Heinemann Asia coming up in 2018, perhaps, with the help of MPH, we can do a big push to get this collection published in other countries and also translated into other languages other than
French....The individual stories have been published over 80 times, the last publication being "Dark Blue Thread" in Australia's
Westerly 2011. Then "Home for Hari Raya" was filmed in 2013 by
Ohio University. Would love to have this collection taught in the US and other countries at various Southeast Asia programs. "Home for Hari Raya and "Only in Malaysia" were taught at Ohio University in 2012, and many of the stories, including the collection has been taught in several universities and private colleges in Malaysia and for six years "Neighbours" was taught for SPM literature. There has been some interest before, and I just recently revised all of
the stories, which I did for the French translation, too, to make them even better, so let's see what happens...
Again I want to thank Popular for inviting me to the Bookfest and for featuring me in this month's issue of POPCLUB and for having the Popular-Star Reader's Choice Awards, which made it possible for
Lovers and Strangers Revisited to win back in 2009!
—Borneo Expat
Writer
Here are links to four of my author to author interviews of
first novelists:
Ivy
Ngeow author of Cry
of the Flying Rhino, winner
of the 2016 Proverse Prize.
Plus:
Beheaded on
Road to Nationhood: Sarawak Reclaimed—Part
I
