Catherine Lim is an extremely popular best selling author of Singapore. She is known and respected for her writings on Singapore society and traditional themes of Chinese Culture. She was born in 1942 in the Malaysian town of Kulim. She studied at the University of Malaya and graduate with her bachelor’s degree in 1963. In 1967 she immigrated to Singapore where she continued her education. She received her PhD in Applied Linguistics in 1988 from the National University of Singapore. Guests staying in the best Singapore hotels often make tours of local universities part of the sight seeing experience.
Lim academia career didn’t end with her PhD, she went on to study at both Columbia and the University of California Berkeley as a Fulbright Scholar. She had worked as a teacher and served as the project director for Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore. She became a specialist lecturer with the Regional English Language Center where she taught linguistics and literature. Lim was a gifted academic and was a talented writer. She was becoming extremely successful early in life.
In 1992 she made the decision to quite the professional route she was on and pursue writing full time. This is generally a risky venture and it takes true passion and trust in one’s intent to brave the struggles, rejections and uncertainty a writer’s life can bring. Lim did have previous publishing experience, and was not starting over or from scratch. In 1778 she had published a short story collection titled Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore. She also published a succeeding collection in 1980. Her first novel, The Serpent’s Tooth, was published in 1982. This was more than enough publishing success to get Lim started on her fulltime writing career. She has since written Following the Wrong God and The Bondmaid, among other works. Her career has been somewhat controversial and in 1994 she was publicly criticized by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong for her politically themed article The PAP and the people – A Great Affective Divide.
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