Felicia Yap (born November 1980) is a Malaysia-born author. Her debut novel, a thriller titled ''Yesterday'', was the subject of a bidding war by publishers.

Early life

Yap was born in November 1980 and raised in

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. Her father refilled ATMs for a living and her mother was a clerk in a car repair shop.

Education and career

In 2000 Yap began to study biochemistry at

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

, after which she worked as a researcher at the

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in Heidelberg. She then switched to studying history at the

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, completing a master's degree at

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and a doctorate at St Catharine's College on the subject of prisoners of the Japanese during the Second World War. In 2007, she was elected a junior research fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Yap worked as a journalist in Singapore and the United Kingdom and has written for ''

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'' and ''The Business Times''. Her debut novel was a thriller titled ''Yesterday'', followed by her second novel titled ''Future Perfect''.

Selected publications

*''Future Perfect''. London: Headline, 2021. * ''Yesterday''. New York: Mulholland Books, 2017.

References

Living people Writers from Kuala Lumpur 1980 births Malaysian non-fiction writers Alumni of Imperial College London Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge Malaysian journalists Malaysian women journalists Malaysian emigrants to the United Kingdom Malaysian women writers 21st-century journalists 21st-century women journalists 21st-century Malaysian women writers {{malaysia-writer-stub