Felix Cheong
OccupationPoet, Novelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalitySingaporean
GenreYoung adult fiction, poetry

Felix Cheong is a Singaporean author and poet.

Cheong has written two young adult fiction books used as part of a national education campaign – The Call From Crying House (ISBN 9789814189057) and its sequel, The Woman In The Last Carriage (ISBN 9789814189118).[1][2]

Cheong's first collection of poetry, Temptation and Other Poems (ISBN 9789813065178) was published in 1998 followed by a second collection in 1999, I Watch the Stars Go Out (ISBN 9789810411275),[3] Broken by the Rain (ISBN 9789810480332) in 2003,[4] and Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems (ISBN 9789810834128) in 2009.[5]

Cheong won the National Arts Council's Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000 and the poetry slam at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival in 2004.[1][6]

His more recent writing such as in the Singapore Siu Dai series has included more social and political commentary.

Works

  • B-SIDES AND BACKSLIDES: 1986 -2018 (2018, Math Paper Press) ISBN 9811173044
  • Singapore Siu Dai 2: The SG Conversation Upsize! (2014, Ethos Books) ISBN 978-981-09-2549-9
  • Singapore Siu Dai: The SG Conversation In A Cup (2014, Ethos Books) ISBN 9789810788582
  • Vanishing Point (2012, Ethos Books) ISBN 9789810733865
  • Sudden in Youth: New & Selected Poems (2009, Ethos Books) ISBN 9789810834128
  • The Woman in the Last Carriage (2007, Landmark Books) ISBN 9814189111
  • The Call from the Crying House (2006, Landmark Books) ISBN 9814189057
  • Different (2005, Ethos Books) ISBN 9810537654
  • Idea to Ideal: 12 Singapore Poets on the Writing of their Poems (editor; 2004, Firstfruits) ISBN 981051686X
  • Broken by the Rain (2003, Firstfruits) ISBN 9810480334
  • I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999, Ethos Books) ISBN 9810411278
  • Temptation, and Other Poems (1998, Landmark Books) ISBN 9813065176

References

  1. 1 2 "Son hired as consultant". AsiaOne. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  2. ↑ Yap, Stephanie (3 June 2007). "The woman in the last carriage". AsiaOne. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  3. ↑ Tan, Gim Ean (29 November 2000). "Following the call of the Muse". The New Straits Times. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  4. ↑ Lee, Clarissa (20 August 2003). "Broken by the Rain: The Scums and God by Felix Cheong". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012.
  5. ↑ "We RAT on Felix Cheong!". TODAYonline. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  6. ↑ "Past Festival Participants". Hong Kong International Literary Festival. Archived from the original on 10 December 2010.


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