Goh Poh Seng

Goh Poh Seng was born in 1936 in Kuala Lumpur, into a family in which the grandfather, an illiterate immigrant, held education to be the most precious of possessions. A pupil at the Victoria Institution, he studied medicine in Dublin, where his passion for writing was born, then practised in Singapore. A pioneer of Singaporean theatre in English, he chaired the national theatre trust, founded an artists' circle and a literary magazine, and created his own publishing house. Awarded the Cultural Medallion in 1982, he emigrated to Canada in 1986 and died in Vancouver on 10 January 2010.

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• NovelIf We Dream Too LongGoh Poh Seng · 1972Literature