Singaporean Writers: Bonny Hicks, Muhammad Jailani Abu Talib, Chandran Nair, Liang Wern Fook, Neil Humphreys, Alfian Sa'at, Catherine Lim

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Bonny Hicks, Muhammad Jailani Abu Talib, Chandran Nair, Liang Wern Fook, Neil Humphreys, Alfian Sa'at, Catherine Lim, Wena Poon, Alvin Pang, Koh Buck Song, Goh Sin Tub, Tan Swie Hian, Philip Jeyaretnam, Gopal Baratham, Alex Au, Villayil Raman Gopala Pillai, Thamizhavel G. Sarangapani, Boey Kim Cheng, Su-Chen Christine Lim, James Lee, Aaron Lee, Felix Cheong, K. K. Seet, Nicky Moey, Kenneth Lyen, Goh Poh Seng, David Leo, Hwee Hwee Tan, H. C. Matthew Sim, Lee Tzu Pheng, Russell Lee, Sim Yee Chiang, Adrian Tan, Vyvyane Loh, Denyse Tessensohn, Sylvia Toh Paik Choo, Damien Sin, Wilfred Hamilton-Shimmen. Excerpt: Bonny Hicks (5 January 1968 - 19 December 1997) was a Singapore Eurasian model who gained her greatest notoriety for her contributions to Singaporean post-colonial literature and the anthropic philosophy conveyed in her works. Her first book, Excuse Me, are you a Model?, is recognized as a significant milestone in the literary and cultural history of Singapore. She followed it with Discuss Disgust and many shorter pieces in press outlets, including a short-lived opinion column that was pulled amidst public criticism. She died at age twenty-nine on 19 December 1997 when SilkAir Flight 185 crashed into the Musi River on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing all one-hundred-and-four aboard. After her death numerous publications, including the book Heaven Can Wait: Conversations with Bonny Hicks by Tal Ben-Shahar, featured her life and thought. Although she was widely deemed controversial during her lifetime for her willingness to openly discuss human sexuality, her legacy is understood as important for particularly Singaporean society during its period of broad-scale societal changes under forces of globalization. Hicks was born in in 1968 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to a British father, Ron Hicks, and a Cantones...