Chuah Guat Eng
Malaysian writer
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| Intro | Malaysian writer | |
| Places | Malaysia | |
| is | Writer | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 1 December 1943 | |
| Age | 81 years |
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Biography
Chuah Guat Eng (Chinese: 蔡月英; pinyin: Cài Yuè Yīng; born 1 December 1943) in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan, is a Malaysian Peranakan Chinese writer. She was Malaysia's first English-language woman novelist.
She received her early education at the Methodist Girls' School, Klang and Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur.
She read English Literature at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, and German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich. She received a PhD from National University of Malaysia in 2008 for her thesis "From Conflict to Insight: A Zen-based Reading Procedure for the Analysis of Fiction".
Works
- Echoes of Silence [ISBN 9789839132014]
- Tales from the Baram River [ISBN 9789676111487]
- The Old House & Other Stories [ISBN 9789834377809]
- Days of Change [ISBN 9789834377816]