Catherine Lim
Catherine Lim born in 1942 in Kulim, Malaysia. She received her B.A. from the University of Malaya in 1963 and immigrated to Singapore in 1967. Her first short story collection was published in 1978. Her first novel (The Serpent's Tooth) was published in 1982. She received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the National University of Singapore in 1988. She and attended Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990 as a Fulbright Scholar. She has also worked as a teacher of Socio-Linguistics and Literature. In 1992, she decided to write full-time. She has published more than 10 collections of short stories, five novels, and two poetry collections.
Books
Little ironies
1978
ISBN 9780435002244
The teardrop story woman
1998
ISBN 9780752825939
The Bondmaid
1995
ISBN 9780446607346
Or Else, the Lightning God and Other Stories
1980
ISBN 9780435002510
They do return
1983
ISBN 9789971651268
O Singapore!
1989
ISBN 9789812041364
The best of Catherine Lim
1993
ISBN 9789971643355
The woman's book of superlatives
1993
ISBN 9789812044013
The howling silence
1999
ISBN 9789810417789
La maîtresse de Jade
1999
ISBN 9782744126772
The serpent's tooth
1982
ISBN 9789971651305
"Three Gifts From the Green Dragon" and Other Stories from Chinese Literature (A Target Book)
1985
ISBN 9780426201960
Shadow of a Shadow of a Dream
1987
ISBN 9789971641184
Or else, the lightning god & other stories
1988
ISBN 9789971640149
Deadline for love and other stories
1992
ISBN 9789971642860
Das Amulett aus Jade
1999
ISBN 9783492228237
Following the Wrong God Home
2001
ISBN 9780752843568
The Song of Silver Frond
2003
ISBN 9780752856919
A Leap of Love
2003
ISBN 9789810455675
Humoresque
2006
ISBN 9789810559595
A watershed election
2011
ISBN 9789814351706
Roll out the champagne, Singapore!
2014
ISBN 9789814561587
Written Country: The History of Singapore through Literature
2016
ISBN 9789814189668
Man/Born/Free: Writings on the Human Spirit from Singapore
2011
ISBN 9789810882778