Singaporean Fiction in English: A Selected Bibliography of Primary Materials

Leong Liew Geok, National University of Singapore, updated by Tamara S. Wagner

No attempt has been made at being exhaustive, either of all literary works published, or of those by each author listed. What follows is a selection rather than a comprehensive catalogue.

1970s:

• Goh Poh Seng, If We Dream Too Long (1972)
• Lim Thean Soo, Destination Singapore (1976)
• Catherine Lim, Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore (1978)
• Robert Yeo, ed. Singapore Short Stories (1978)

1980s:

• Gopal Baratham, Figments of Experience (1981)
• Catherine Lim, The Serpent's Tooth (1982)
• Philip Jeyaretnam, First Loves (1987)

1990s:

• Claire Tham, Fascist Rock: Stories of Rebellion (1990)
• Gopal Baratham, A Candle or the Sun (1991)
• Rex Shelley, The Shrimp People (1991)
• Christine Su Chen Lim, Fistful of Colours (1993)
• Goh Sin Tub, Goh's Twelve Best Singapore Stories (1993)
• Ming Cher, Spider Boys (1995)
• Catherine Lim, The Bondmaid (1995)
• Philip Jeyaretnam, Abraham's Promise (1995)
• Hwee Hwee Tan, Foreign Bodies (1997)
• Catherine Lim, The Teardrop Story Woman (1998)

2000:

• Lau Siew Mei, Playing Madame Mao (2000)
• Hsu-Ming Teo, Love and Vertigo (2000)
• Hwee Hwee Tan, Mammon Inc (2001)
• Catherine Lim, Following the Wrong God Home (2001)
• C.M. Woon, The Advocate's Devil (2002)
  
  

7 November 2002