Felix Cheong

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Felix Cheong
OccupationPoet, Novelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalitySingaporean
GenreYoung adult fiction, poetry

Felix Cheong (born 1965, Singapore) is a Singaporean author and poet. He received the National Arts Council Young Artist Award for Literature in 2000. [1] Cheong has written over 30 books across genres including poetry, young adult fiction, and graphic novels.

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Early life and education

Cheong spent his early childhood years in a kampong in Lorong 3, Geylang. He has one older brother and two younger brothers. Born to two Catholic parents, Cheong has described Catholicism as having a profound impact on his writing. [2]

Cheong attended St. Anthony's Boys' School and represented the school in table tennis. He then attended St. Joseph's Institution, where he was a member of the school band and the Literary, Drama and Debate Society. [2]

In 1990, Cheong graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in English Literature and Philosophy, and a minor in English Language. [2] [3] In June 2002, he completed his Masters of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland on a bursary awarded by the National Arts Council. [4]

Career

Cheong started his career as a broadcast journalist with the then-Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, where he worked for two years. He then joined CNBC Asia as a studio director for close to eight years. [5] [2] He later embarked on a freelance writing career before becoming a teacher. He has since taught at institutions such as LaSalle College, University of Newcastle, and the National University of Singapore. [5]

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), [6] Broken by the Rain ( ISBN   9789810480332) in 2003, [7] and Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems ( ISBN   9789810834128) in 2009. [8]

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). [9] [10]

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. [9] [11]

His poems have been featured in various projects, including Singapore Poetry on the Sidewalks in 2016 [12] and Poems on the MRT. [13]

Selected publications

Poetry

Fiction

Graphic novels

References

  1. ↑ Hoo, Shawn (17 February 2024). "Author Felix Cheong releases bumper crop of seven books in a year after slew of rejections". The Straits Times.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kay Chin, Tay (15 October 2025). "Felix CHEONG". b1965.
  3. ↑ "Felix Cheong Seng Fei: A Biographical Introduction". Postcolonialweb.
  4. ↑ Pang, Alvin (April 2003). "Sex and the City Poet". Quarterly Literary Review Singapore.
  5. 1 2 Teo, Bertrand (19 July 2021). "Merging Literary Art With Business: How Poet And Author Felix Cheong Thrived In Singapore's Literary Scene". DollarsAndSense Business.
  6. ↑ Tan, Gim Ean (29 November 2000). "Following the call of the Muse". The New Straits Times. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "We RAT on Felix Cheong!". TODAYonline. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
  9. 1 2 "Son hired as consultant". AsiaOne. 4 May 2010. Archived from the original on 7 May 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  10. ↑ Yap, Stephanie (3 June 2007). "The woman in the last carriage". AsiaOne. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  11. ↑ "Past Festival Participants". Hong Kong International Literary Festival. Archived from the original on 10 December 2010.
  12. ↑ Ng, Charmaine (3 November 2016). "These 'invisible' poems at the Esplanade and Arts House are only revealed when it rains". The Straits Times.
  13. ↑ Peters, Daniel. "6 On 60: Award-winning poet Felix Cheong and young haiku writer Faith Cheng on finding your voice through the written word". Catch Singapore.


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