Shirley lim biography
Shirley lim biography
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Shirley Geok-lin Lim
American poet (born 1944)
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim | |
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Lim in 2014 | |
| Born | 1944 (age 80–81)[citation needed] Malacca, Malaysia[1] |
| Occupation | Poet, author, and literary critic |
| Spouse | Charles Bazerman |
| Children | 1 |
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] In 1997, she received the American Book Award for her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces.[2]
Biography
Lim was born in the state capital of Malacca City and lived with her five brothers, but was abandoned by her mother during childhood.[3]
Her first poem was published in the Malacca Times when she was ten and by the age of eleven, she had decided that she wanted to become a poet.[1