The River's Song

Recipient of the South East Asia S.E.A.Write Award 2012, Suchen Christine Lim is one of Singapore's most talented and distinguished writers. Born in Malaysia, she grew up in Singapore. In 1992, her third novel, Fistful of Colours, was awarded the Inaugural Singapore Literature Prize. A Bit Of Earth (2000), her fourth novel, and a short---story collection, The Lies That Build A Marriage (2007) were subsequently shortlisted for the same prize. A short story, The Morning After, was made into a film for national television in 2008. In 2010, she co--scripted and was featured in Writing The City, a popular series of short films commissioned by the British Council, Singapore. A play, The Amah: A Portrait in Black & White, and a children's book have won merit prizes, and the Ministry of Education have adopted several of her children's picture books for kindergartens and primary schools.

Awarded a Fulbright grant in 1997, she is a Fellow of the International Writers' Program, University of Iowa, and the first Singapore writer honored as the university's International Writer---in---Residence in 2000. Since then, she has also held writing residencies in Myanmar, the Philippines, South Korea and at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 2011, she was the Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. In the UK she has been writer in residence at Arvon Foundation several times. She returned to Moniak Mhor in Scotland in the Summer of 2013 to hold another workshop for writers.