Felix Cheong

Felix Cheong
OccupationPoet, Novelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalitySingaporean
GenreYoung 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.

  1. ^ a b "Son hired as consultant". AsiaOne. 4 May 2010. Archived from the original on 7 May 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  2. ^ Yap, Stephanie (3 June 2007). "The woman in the last carriage". AsiaOne. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  3. ^ Tan, Gim Ean (29 November 2000). "Following the call of the Muse". The New Straits Times. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  4. ^ Lee, Clarissa (20 August 2003). "Broken by the Rain: The Scums and God by Felix Cheong". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012.
  5. ^ "We RAT on Felix Cheong!". TODAYonline. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  6. ^ "Past Festival Participants". Hong Kong International Literary Festival. Archived from the original on 10 December 2010.