Goh Poh Seng

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Goh Poh Seng was born in Malaya in 1936. He received his medical degree from University College in Dublin, and practised medicine in Singapore for twenty-five years. Goh's first novel, If We Dream Too Long, won the National Book Development Council of Singapore's Fiction Award and has been translated into Russian and Tagalog. His other books include The Immolation, Dance of Moths, Eyewitness, Lines from Batu Ferringhi and Bird With One Wing. His most recent works are his Collections of Poems, As Though the Gods Love Us and The Girl from Ermita. His work also appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies around the world. Goh lives now in Canada.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Poetry collections

  • Lines from Batu Ferringhi
  • Dance of Moths
  • As Though the Gods Love Us
  • The Girl from Ermita

[edit] Novels

  • If We Dream Too Long
  • Eyewitness
  • The Immolation

[edit] Awards

  • National Book Development Council Of Singapore Fiction Award
  • Singapore Cultural Medallion for Literature 1982

[edit] References


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