Author · Singapore
Kuo Pao Kun
Died in 2002
Kuo Pao Kun was born in 1939 in a poor village in Hebei. His mother took him to Beijing in 1947, then to Hong Kong, and at the age of ten he joined his father, a businessman, in Singapore; there he attended Chinese and English schools in turn. Trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, he founded a performing arts school in 1965 with his wife, the dancer Goh Lay Kuan. Detained without trial from March 1976 to October 1980 and stripped of his citizenship in 1977, he regained it in 1992, received the Cultural Medallion in 1989, founded several theatre venues, and died of cancer in 2002, at the age of sixty-three.
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- TheatreThe Coffin Is Too Big for the HoleKuo Pao Kun · 1985Literature