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Catherine Lim Poh Imm (, born 21 March 1942) 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",〔(LITERARY MEAL: EAT YOUR WORDS WITH CATHERINE LIM ) 3 November 2012 Old Parliament House, Singapore〕 Lim has published nine collections of short stories, five novels, two poetry collections, and numerous political commentaries to date. Her social commentary in 1994, titled ''The PAP and the people - A Great Affective Divide''〔(The PAP and the people – A Great Affective Divide ) 3 September 1994 The Straits Times〕〔(Colony, Nation, and Globalisation ) 2010, Hong Kong University Press〕 and published in ''The Straits Times'' criticised the ruling political party's agendas. ==Career== Lim was born in Kulim (Malaya) and studied in the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus. Early childhood reading was mainly influenced by British fiction, including Enid Blyton, Richmal Crompton and comics.〔"'Book Talk' in School," ''LPC Reporter'', Vol.8, No.2, 1987, p.5〕 She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Malaya in 1963, moving to Singapore in 1967. In 1988, she received her Ph.D in applied linguistics from the National University of Singapore. Lim subsequently attended Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley as a Fulbright scholar (1990). She also worked as a teacher and later as project director with the Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore and as a specialist lecturer with the Regional English Language Centre, teaching sociolinguistics and literature. In 1992, she left her professional career to become a full-time writer. Lim was subsequently made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (France) in 2003 and an ambassador of the Hans Christian Andersen Foundation (Copenhagen) in 2005. She received an honorary doctorate in literature from Murdoch University.〔 Lim published her first short story collection called ''Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore'' in 1978. A succeeding collection, ''Or Else, the Lightning God and other Stories'', was published in 1980. Another story collection that followed in this tradition was ''O Singapore!: Stories in Celebration'' from 1989, but two years earlier she published ''The Shadow of a Shadow of a Dream'', which found Lim experimenting with new techniques and extending her subject range.〔"Taking the Pulse of Singapore," Asiaweek, 23 August 1987〕 Her first novel, ''The Serpent's Tooth'', was published in 1982. Other books that have been published since then include ''The Bondmaid'' (1995) and ''Following the Wrong God Home'' (2001). The major theme in her stories is the role of women in traditional Chinese society and culture. In 1998 Lim was awarded the Montblanc-NUS Centre for the Arts Literary Award〔(Sleep & Get Rich! ) 2009, Armour Publishing〕 and in 1999 she received the S.E.A. Write Award.〔(S.E.A Write Award Winners List ) 1999 S.E.A. Write Award〕 In 2000, Lim worked with the now-defunct web portal Lycos Asia to write an e-novella called ''Leap of Love''. It was sold online (at 19 cents a chapter) before it was published by Horizon Books in 2003. It served as basis for the film ''The Leap Years'' by Raintree Pictures in 2008. Another best-selling novel was ''The Bondmaid'', which sold 75,000 copies. In 2015, ''Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore'' was selected by ''The Business Times'' as one of the Top 10 English Singapore books from 1965–2015, alongside titles by Arthur Yap, Daren Shiau and Amanda Lee Koe. In the same year, ''The Straits Times Akshita Nanda selected ''Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore'' as one of 10 classic Singapore books. "Catherine Lim's early short, sharp fiction describes the results of such social engineering", she wrote, "a Singapore growing more cosmopolitan and Singaporeans losing touch with their roots. ''Little Ironies'' spotlights ordinary people at their best and worst, such as 'The Taximan's Story', in which a cab driver is happy to make money off sex workers while looking down on them." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catherine Lim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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