Felix Cheong | |
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Occupation | Poet, Novelist |
Language | English |
Nationality | Singaporean |
Genre | Young 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.