Lim, Shirley

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Name (Latin)
Lim, Shirley
Other forms of name
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin
Lim, Geok-lin
Date of birth
1944-12-27
Associated country
Singapore
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 17361585
Wikidata: Q7498755
Library of congress: n 82015042
Sources of Information
  • Approaches to teaching Kingston's The woman warrior, 1991:CIP t.p. (Shirley Geok-lin Lim) CIP data (b. 12/27/44)
  • Her Crossing the Peninsula & other poems, 1980:t.p. (Shirley Lim) cover p. 4 (Shirley Geok-lin Lim, educated in Malacca, Univ. of Malaya, Brandeis Univ., Ph. D. in Eng. & Am. lit.; a Peranakan; currently teaches at Westchester Community College, NY)
  • LCN note: Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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Wikipedia description:

Shirley Geok-lin Lim (born 1944) is an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism. She was both the first woman and the first Asian person to be awarded Commonwealth Poetry Prize for her first poetry collection, Crossing The Peninsula, which she published in 1980. In 1997, she received the American Book Award for her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces. In 2020, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Feminist Press at CUNY.

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