Catherine Lim

Catherine Lim Poh Imm was born in March 1942 in Kulim, in Kedah, in the north of the Malay peninsula, into a family of Chinese origin. A pupil at a Catholic convent school, nourished on English children's novels, she obtained a degree from the University of Malaya in 1963, taught, and settled in Singapore in 1970, where she was an education officer and then a curriculum head; there she took a master's degree in 1979 and a doctorate in 1987. An author of short stories, novels, poems and political columns, she provoked a debate in 1994 with an article criticising the ruling party.

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• Short storiesLittle Ironies: Stories of SingaporeCatherine Lim · 1978Literature