Edwin Thumboo
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Emeritus Professor Edwin Nadason Thumboo (born November 22, 1933) is a Singaporean poet. His father was a school teacher of Sri Lankan Tamil descent and his mother was a Chinese Teochew housewife. Thumboo is a Protestant Christian. He studied at Victoria School.
Thumboo became a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature in 1979, and later served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, until late 1991. In September 1997, Thumboo attained the position of Emeritus Professor.
Thumboo is considered by many to be Singapore's unofficial poet laureate since independence, a position underlied by his seven volumes of poetry published so far.
He has won the National Book Development Council of Singapore Award for poetry in 1978 and 1994, the inaugural S.E.A. Write Award in 1979. He has also received the Cultural Medallion for Literature in Singapore in 1980, and the Asean Cultural and Communication Award (Literature) in 1987.
Thumboo is married to Yeo Swee Ching and has one son, Julian, and one daughter, Claire.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Poetry Collections
- Rib of Earth (1956)
- The Gods Can Die (1977)
- Ulysses by the Merlion (1979)
- A Third Map (1993)
[edit] Anthologies (editor)
- The Flowering Tree (1970)
- Seven Poets (1973)
- The Second Tongue (1979)
- Anthology of ASEAN Literatures (1985)
[edit] Awards
- NBDCS Award for poetry in English (1978, 1980, 1994)
- S.E.A. Write Award (1979)
- Cultural Medallion (1980)
- ASEAN Cultural and Communication Award in Literature (1987)
- Public Service Star (Bar, 1991).
- National Day Award:The Meritorious Services Medal (2006)
[edit] References
- Singapore Culture and Information. Singapore's Writers. Retrieved on December 6, 2005.
