Edwin Thumboo
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Emeritus Professor Edwin Nadason Thumboo (born November 22, 1933) is an award-winning Singaporean poet.
He studied at Victoria School in Singapore. He enrolled at the University of Malaya in 195e, where he majored in English literature and history. Subsequently, Thumboo joined the civil service and worked in the Singapore Telephone Board as an assistant secretary. In 1966, a year following Singapore’s independence, he joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) as an assistant lecturer before going on to pursue a doctorate. He became a full professor in the Department of English Language and Literature in 1979, and was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 1980 to 1991. He continues to be associated with NUS as Emeritus Professor (since September 1977) and Chairman/Director for The Centre for the Arts.
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. In 2006, Thumboo was awarded the Meritorious Services Medal, as Distinguished Poet and Literary Scholar.
His father was a school teacher of Indian Tamil descent and his mother was a Chinese Teochew housewife. Thumboo is a Protestant Christian. He is married to Yeo Swee Ching and has a son, Julian, and a daughter, Claire.
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[edit] Works
=== Po try 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)
