You may remember the name O Thiam Chin from a long-time ago story about his struggle to sell his first self-published collection of stories Free Falling Man. Or you may have seen his stories in Silverfish New Writing 6, or Body2Body or on the QLRS website. Well now he has a new collection, Never Been Better, out with MPH, and it's blurbed by no other than Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng who calls it :
A collection of thought-provoking stories about the contemporary Asian family. O Thiam Chin is a promising writer.The book is due to be launched in October, and O (isn't that a great family name for an author!) will be appearing at the Singapore Writers Festival.
Go, Mr. O !
ReplyDeleteWaiting for the inevitable press article on him to be called "The Story of O."
Darn Amir beat me to it.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great time for Malaysian authors!
O's next collection of stories should be titled "The Stories of O"
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- Poppadumdum
*Ahem*
ReplyDeletePoem for Mr O whose name resembles:
a hole
a whole
a nothing
a ring
a naught
& a doughnut.
love it gnute! it's good our mr O is so inspiring
ReplyDeleteI read his story "Pebbles" in Cha and it was wonderful! How do I get hold of this book? It's not on Amazon.uk (yet).
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ReplyDeleteI suggest that you go to Eric Forbes's blogsite and contact him on how to get the book. I believe the book will be out end of September.
- Poppadumdum
Oh, so it's not out yet? I'll contact mr Forbes, then. Thanks!
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