Boey kim cheng short biography
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Boey Kim Cheng (b. 1965)
BIOGRAPHY
Boey Kim Cheng emigrated from Singapore in 1997 to Australia, eventually settling in Berowra, New South Wales.
He began writing in Victoria Secondary School and published his first collection Somewhere-Bound (1989) when he was at the National University of Singapore.
Boey kim cheng short biography
It won the National Book Development Council Award in 1989. Another Place (1992) followed, and was chosen as a GCE “A” level text from 2005 to 2015. Days of No Name (1996), written during the international writing residency in Iowa, won the Merit award in the Singapore Literature Prize in 1995.
In 1996, Boey was given the Young Artist Award.
While in Australia, Boey completed a PhD at the University of Macquarie and taught creative writing at the University of Newcastle. As an Asian Australian poet, Boey has published After the Fire: New and Selected Poems (2006), and a travel memoir entitled Between Stations (2009), which was shor