Launch of new novel by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

SHIRLEY LIM (b.1944) is one of Hong Kong’s most-published writers. Her first
collection of poems, _Crossing the Peninsula_, published by Heinemann Press in
1980, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and for a
woman. Her memoire, _Among the White Moon Faces_, received the 1997 American
Book Award. Lim is a professor in the English Department at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. She has also taught internationally at the National
University of Singapore, the National Institute Education of Nanyang
Technological University, and was the Chair Professor at the University of Hong
Kong where she also taught poetry and creative writing. She is the author of
two novels _Joss and Gold_ and _Sister Swing_. A collection of poems _Listening
to the Singer_ was published by Maya Press in 2007.

PRINCESS SHAWL is a young-adult’s novel which tells the intriguing story of the
legendary Princess Hang Li Poh, who was married off to the Malaccan Sultan
Mansur Shah, as a gift from the Chinese Emperor.

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