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Biography
Felicia Yap (born November 1980) is a Malaysia-born author. Her debut novel, a thriller titled Yesterday, was the subject of a bidding war by publishers.
Early life
Yap was born in November 1980 and raised in Kuala Lumpur. Her father refilled ATMs for a living and her mother was a clerk in a car repair shop. In 2000 she began to study biochemistry at Imperial College London, after which she completed a doctorate in history at the University of Cambridge on the subject of prisoners of the Japanese during the Second World War.
Career
She worked at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg between completing her studies at Imperial College London and beginning a masters degree and a PhD at Cambridge. She worked as a journalist in Singapore and the United Kingdom and has written for The Economist and The Business Times. Her debut novel is a thriller titled Yesterday. She is writing a prequel titled Today.
Selected publications
- Yesterday, 2017.