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WHO IS SHE?
Stella Kon, a Singapore writer, was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Descended from two old Singapore families: her mother, Rosie Seow, was a great-grand-daughter of Tan Tock Seng, and her father, Dr Lim Kok Ann, is a grand-son of Lim Boon Keng.
She spent most of her life in Singapore, in "Oberon", a mansion in Emerald Hill as in her most famous work "Emily of Emerald Hill". She takes her biggest writing successes to be in the early eighties, when she came out tops in all three of the National Playwriting Competition in 1979, 1982 and 1985 organised by Singapore's Ministry of Culture.
HER WORKS:
Published:
1975 : The Immigrant and Other Plays
The Immigrant
Zeep
Runner of Marathon
Hideout in Geylang
The Eldest Brother
Birds of a Feather
1977 : Emporium and Other Plays
Emporium
The Naga in the Swamp
Asoka
Kumba Kumba
In the Repair Shop
1982 : The Trial and Other Plays
1982 : Dracula and Other Stories
1986 : The Scholar and the Dragon [novel]
1989 : Emily of Emerald Hill
1990 : Dragon's Teeth Gate
1992 : Portrait of a Nonya
1992 : Silent Song
1992 : The Bridge
1995 : Eston [novel]
2000 : A Breeding Pair
Z is for Zygote
To Hatch a Swan
2002 : The Human Heart Fruit
2003 : Exodus (A Journey of Faith): a musical
Poems:
http://www.emilyofemeraldhill.com/SK%20poems%20i.html
{Information acquired from:
http://www.emilyofemeraldhill.com/ & http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_428_2005-01-14.html}
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