Edwin Thumboo: Bibliography 1952 - 2008

by Edwin Thumboo, R. Ramachandran (Compiler), Phan Ming Yen (Compiler)

Prof Thumboo was appointed Professor of English at the National University of Singapore in January 1979 and is presently Emeritus Professor of the Department of English Language and Literature and Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong. He served as Head of the Department of English Language and Literature (1977-1993) and was the first Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (1980-1991) and Professorial Fellow (1995-2002). He has carried profound commitment to the development of Singapore literature through his role as critic, academic, anthologist and literary activist and continues to be an active champion of the arts in Singapore.

This is book is a compilation of Prof. Thumboo's extensive bibliography, which ranges from his own anthologies such as essays and articles, as well as works which he had edited to prefaces of works by others.

44 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Edwin Thumboo, Emeritus Professor and Professorial Fellow, National University of Singapore, has been involved in Singapore’s literary developments since 1951: editing, anthologising, initiating programmes (eg Creative Arts Programme with the Ministry of Education), running a poetry column in The Straits Times, teaching a degree-level creative writing course etc. He published Rib of Earth (1956), Gods Can Die (1977), Ulysses by the Merlion (1979), A Third Map (1993), Friend (2003), Still Traveling (2008), and Bring the Sun (poems from out-of-print volumes; 2008). He is working on a volume of translations into Chinese, as well as a Selected Poems due to appear in 2012. Studies of his work include Ee Tiang Hong, Responsibility and Commitment: The Poetry of Edwin Thumboo (1997) and Peter Nazareth, Edwin Thumboo: Creating a Nation through Poetry (2008), Essays on Edwin Thumboo has contributions by Jonathan Webster (editor), Thiru Kandiah, Wong Phui Nam and Lily Tope. He has edited Seven Poets: Singapore/Malaysia, An Anthology (1973), The Second Tongue: An Anthology of Poetry from Malaysia and Singapore (1979), and was General Editor for the Anthology of ASEAN Literatures: The Poetry of Singapore (1985), and The Fiction of Singapore (1990). He received the National Book Development Council of Singapore, Book Award for Poetry in English (1978, 1980 and 1994), Southeast Asian Writers Award (1979), Singapore’s Cultural Medallion (1980), ASEAN Cultural and Communication Award in Literature (1987), the Raja Rao Award (2002), and the Meritorious Service Medal, Singapore (2006). A Fellow of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa (1977), he has given readings in various universities and international literary festivals and book fairs.