The apprentice years: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's "First" interview
An interview with the Malaysian-American poet-writer Shirley Geok-lin Lim that traces her early career, from the beginning to the years after she received the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1980. Although Lim is a versatile writer who has excelled in multiple genres, this interview focuse...
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IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/57955/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/57955/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/57955/1/The_Apprentice_Years_Shirley_Geok-lin_Li.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/57955/7/57955_The%20apprentice%20years_WOS.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/57955/13/%2B57955_The%20apprentice%20years%20Shirley%20Geok-lin%20Lim%27s%20First%20interview_SCOPUS.pdf |
| Summary: | An interview with the Malaysian-American poet-writer Shirley Geok-lin Lim that traces her early career, from the beginning to the years after she received the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1980. Although Lim is a versatile writer who has excelled in multiple genres, this interview focuses exclusively on her poetry as her primary calling as a writer has been that of a poet. In the interview, Lim explains her challenges and accomplishments in the early years, especially as a migrant poet in the US, and highlights the various methods and techniques she used in her early poetry. |
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