Chuah Guat Eng (; born 1 December 1943), is a Malaysian

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Chinese writer. She was Malaysia's first English-language woman novelist. Chuah was born in Rembau,

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, and received her early education at the Methodist Girls' School, Klang and

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. She read English Literature at

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, Kuala Lumpur, and German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University,

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. She then received a PhD from

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in 2008 for her thesis "From Conflict to Insight: A Zen-based Reading Procedure for the Analysis of Fiction".

Works

* Echoes of Silence * Tales from the Baram River * The Old House & Other Stories * Days of Change

References

External links

*
Time Out KL, October 2009

Review of 'Dream Stuff' by Chuah Guat Eng

How To Create A Fictional World According To Chuah Guat Eng, by Emad El-Din Aysha
1943 births Living people Malaysian women writers English-language writers from Malaysia Peranakan people in Malaysia 20th-century Malaysian writers 21st-century Malaysian writers 20th-century Malaysian women writers 21st-century Malaysian women writers {{malaysia-bio-stub