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Lim Thean Soo


Born
in Penang, Malaysia
October 19, 1924

Died
February 12, 1991


Lim Thean Soo was a civil servant most of his life and was Comptroller of Customs in Singapore. He has published novels, books of short stories and a volume of poems. He describes his first novel Southward Lies the Fortress (1971) as a "history in novel form" about the Japanese seige and eventual conquest of Singapore. The poems are collected in The Liberation of Lily and Other Poems. Of his many short stories, "The Expatriate" was published in ONE: The Anthology (2012) edited by Robert Yeo. ...more

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Written Country: The Histor...

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One: The Anthology

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Ricky Star

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Tapestry: A Collection of S...

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Eleven Bizarre Tales

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Blues and Carnations

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Siege of Singapore

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The Towkay of Produce Street

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Singapore Writing

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“It was past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged.”
Lim Thean Soo, Ricky Star