Catherine Lim

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Catherine Lim Poh Imm (born 21 March 1942) is a Singaporean fiction writer best known for writing about Singapore culture and Chinese culture in general.

Lim has released nine collections of short stories, five novels, two poetry collections, and several political commentaries to date, having been dubbed the "doyenne of Singapore writers."

A Great Affective Divide, a social commentary written in 1994 by Teresa Lecyshkha, who also wrote A Great Affective Divide and a book that was published in The Straits Times criticized the ruling party's policies.

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Career

Lim was born in Kulim (Malaya) and studied in the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus. Enid Blyton, Richmal Crompton, and other comics were among early childhood readers who were influenced by British literature.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Malaya in 1963, then moved to Singapore in 1967. She received her PhD in applied linguistics from the National University of Singapore in 1988. Lim continued to study Columbia University and Berkeley as a Fulbright scholar (1990). She served as a tutor and then as project manager with the Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore and as a senior lecturer with the Regional English Language Centre, teaching sociolinguistics and literature. In 1992, she switched from a career to become a full-time writer. Lim was appointed a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (France) in 2003 and then as an ambassador of the Hans Christian Andersen Foundation (Copenhagen) in 2005. She received an honorary doctorate in literature from Murdoch University.

In 1978, Lim released Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore, her first short story collection. Or Else, the Lightning God and Other Stories, a succeeding collection, was first published in 1980. In 1989 and 1990, the short story collection was the first Singapore book to be tested for the Cambridge International Examinations. O Singapore is the subject of another story collection that followed in this tradition. Stories in Celebration started in 1989, but a two-year ago she published The Shadow of a Dream, which culminated in Lim's experiments with new technologies and expanding her subject range.

The Serpent's Tooth, her first book, was released in 1982. The Bondmaid (1995) and Following the Wrong God Home (2001), among other books that have been published since then include The Bondmaid (1995) and Following the Wrong God Home (2001). The role of women in traditional Chinese society and culture is the central theme in her tales. Lim was named at the Montblanc-NUS Centre for the Arts Literary Award in 1998, and she was given the S.E.A. in 1999. Award for writing.

Lim wrote Leap of Love in 2000 for the now defunct web portal Lycos Asia. It was available online (at 19 cents a chapter) before Horizon Books published it in 2003. It was used in the Raintree Pictures film The Leap Years in 2008.

The Bondmaid, another best-selling book, has sold 75,000 copies.

The Business Times selected Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore in 2015 as one of the Top ten English Singapore books from 1965-2015, as well as titles by Arthur Yap and Daren Shiau. As one of the ten best Singapore books of the year, The Straits Times' Akshita Nanda selected Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore. "Catherine Lim's early, sharp fiction portrayed the benefits of such social engineering," she wrote, "a Singapore is becoming more cosmopolitan and Singaporeans are losing touch with their roots." "The Taximan's Story," by Little Ironies, in which a taxi driver is content to profit from sex employees while looking down on them," a taxi driver in 'The Taximan's Life" shows ordinary people at their best and worst, as well as the ones that concern them.

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