The apprentice years: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's "First" interview
An interview with the Malaysian-American poet-writer Shirley Geok-lin Lim that traces her early career, from the beginning to the years after she received the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1980. Although Lim is a versatile writer who has excelled in multiple genres, this interview focuse...
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| description | An interview with the Malaysian-American poet-writer Shirley Geok-lin Lim that traces her early career, from the beginning to the years after she received the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1980. Although Lim is a versatile writer who has excelled in multiple genres, this interview focuses exclusively on her poetry as her primary calling as a writer has been that of a poet. In the interview, Lim explains her challenges and accomplishments in the early years, especially as a migrant poet in the US, and highlights the various methods and techniques she used in her early poetry. |
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| spelling | iium-579552018-03-24T18:10:54Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/57955/ The apprentice years: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's "First" interview Quayum, Mohammad Abdul PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PN Literature (General) PN0080 Criticism An interview with the Malaysian-American poet-writer Shirley Geok-lin Lim that traces her early career, from the beginning to the years after she received the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1980. Although Lim is a versatile writer who has excelled in multiple genres, this interview focuses exclusively on her poetry as her primary calling as a writer has been that of a poet. In the interview, Lim explains her challenges and accomplishments in the early years, especially as a migrant poet in the US, and highlights the various methods and techniques she used in her early poetry. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia 2017-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57955/1/The_Apprentice_Years_Shirley_Geok-lin_Li.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57955/7/57955_The%20apprentice%20years_WOS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57955/13/%2B57955_The%20apprentice%20years%20Shirley%20Geok-lin%20Lim%27s%20First%20interview_SCOPUS.pdf Quayum, Mohammad Abdul (2017) The apprentice years: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's "First" interview. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 11 (1). pp. 229-243. E-ISSN 1985-3106 http://10.101.244.45/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/974 |
| spellingShingle | PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PN Literature (General) PN0080 Criticism Quayum, Mohammad Abdul The apprentice years: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's "First" interview |
| title | The apprentice years: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's "First" interview |
| title_full | The apprentice years: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's "First" interview |
| title_fullStr | The apprentice years: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's "First" interview |
| title_full_unstemmed | The apprentice years: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's "First" interview |
| title_short | The apprentice years: Shirley Geok-lin Lim's "First" interview |
| title_sort | apprentice years: shirley geok-lin lim's "first" interview |
| topic | PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PN Literature (General) PN0080 Criticism |
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