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Shirley Geok-lin Lim (born 1944) is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. She was both the first woman and the first Asian person to be awarded Commonwealth Poetry Prize for her first poetry collection, Crossing The Peninsula, which she published in 1980. [1]
Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Fulbright and Wien International Scholar; Ph.D. Brandeis University) is an Asian American/ Malaysian-Singapore writer of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and criticism. Her most recent collection of poems is Dawns Tomorrow.
Professor Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Ph.D., British and American Literature, Brandeis University; Fulbright Scholar and Wien International Fellow; author of Crossing the Peninsula (Commonwealth Poetry Prize winner); six other volumes of poetry; three collections of short stories; two novels; a children's novel, Princess Shawl (translated into ...
Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Emerita Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara. Verified email at english.ucsb.edu. Creative writing postcolonial studies feminist studies Ethnic US...
Oct 9, 2016 · Shirley Geok-lin Lim (b. 1944) CRITICAL INTRODUCTION. Written by Tan Teck Heng. Dated 9 Oct 2016. It is not an intuitive choice to include Shirley Geok-lin Lim on a website dedicated to Singapore poetry, given that the Malaysia-born poet, fiction writer, and academic grew up in Malacca.
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim is a Professor Emerita in the English Department and Chair of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1973, and has also taught at internationally, at the National University of Singapore, NIE of Nanyang Technological University, and most recently ...
Mar 24, 2020 · Shirley Geok-lin Lim honored for her distinguished career as a poet, writer and scholar. Jim Logan. Early on, Shirley Geok-lin Lim ’s prospects seemed bleak. One of six children born to ethnic Chinese in Malaysia near the end of World War II, her childhood was a swirl of poverty and dislocation.
Jun 15, 2011 · The short stories of Shirley Geok-lin Lim—born in Malacca, Malaysia and now Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of...
Jun 15, 2021 · Scattered identities privilege the metonymic character of self (Gilmore “Technologies of Autobiography”) and focus our attention to contingent, liminal, and always already moving aspects of identity. Resisting imposed identities, writers like Lim create identities that subvert what is expected.
Lim considers herself primarily a poet, although she has also written books of short stories, criticism, a novel, and a memoir. Her debut collection, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems (1980), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize–a first for a woman or a person from Asia.
