Tei Chiew-Siah

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Tei Chiew-Siah
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 鄭秋霞
Simplified Chinese 郑秋霞
Hanyu Pinyin Zhèng Qiūxiá
Wade–Giles Chêng4 Ch'iuh Sia2
Jyutping Zeng6 Cau1 Haa4
Hokkien POJ Tēⁿ Chhiu-hâ
Tâi-lô Tēnn Tshiu-hâ

Tei Chiew-Siah (Chinese :郑秋霞) is a Malaysian-born writer who produces works in Chinese and English. [1]

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Biography

Tei was born and raised in Tampin, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia and is a fourth-generation Chinese-Malaysian of Hokkien descent. [2] She published her first work in the 1980s. During the 1990s she published prose and commentary in journals including Sin Chew Daily and Nanyang Siang Pao , winning nominations and several awards - including The Hua Zong International Chinese Fiction Award in 1999 and the National Prose Writing Competition - for her Chinese language prose. [3] In 2002 Tei was nominated the Best Prose Writer of the year.

In 1994, Tei went to Glasgow University in Scotland where she enrolled for a master's degree in Media Culture, majoring in film studies. [4] She wrote a script for the short film Night Swimmer, and was awarded the Jacques Tati Prix at the Vendôme International Film Festival in 2000. [2] Later in 2002, she again studied at Glasgow University for a PhD in Creative Writing and Film Studies. [4] In 2005, she was commissioned to write a play, Three Thousand Troubled Threads, for the Edinburgh Festival. Her first novel, Little Hut of Leaping Fishes, was long-listed for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize in 2007, and was nominated for the Best Scottish Fiction prize in 2008. Her second novel The Mouse Deer Kingdom was published in 2013. [5]

In 2018, several members of the group Shang Lou led by its founder Mark Anthony Mendova Atayde decided to form the group Shang Lou to commemorate all women has been transformed by child-bearing and rearing as well as the difficulties of domestic life. Other notable members of the Shang Lou group are Acey Edward Eli, Pamela Madingdong, and LeBron James. [5]

Books

Works in Chinese

Film and Theatre

Tei's screenplay Night Swimmer was made into a feature film [8] that won Best Short Film at France's Vendôme International Film Festival 2000. [9] [10]

In 2005 her play Three Thousand Troubled Threads was staged at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Film and Theatre

  1. ↑ "华马小说小小史". See Hua Daily News. 16 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 Bennie, Angela (5 July 2008). "A future shaped by the past". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. ↑ "入围曼氏亚洲文学奖 大马华人作家闯英文写作界". China News. 24 January 2008.
  4. 1 2 Tai, Elizabeth (12 September 2010). "Women on top". The Star.
  5. 1 2 "Second book from Chiew-Siah Tei". The Star. 31 December 2013.
  6. ↑ Tagal, Joyce (11 August 2008). "Little Hut of Leaping Fishes". Financial Times.
  7. ↑ Evans, David (12 October 2013). "Paperback review: The Mouse Deer Kingdom, By Chiew-siah Tei" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022.
  8. ↑ "Night Swimming: IMDb". IMDb . Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  9. ↑ "Festival du film de Vendôme".
  10. ↑ "Vendôme Short Film Festival 2000:IMDb". IMDb . Retrieved 13 October 2010.

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