Bernice Chauly

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Bernice Chauly
Portrait by Daniel Adams, 2016
Portrait by Daniel Adams, 2016
BornGeorge Town, Penang
OccupationWriter, poet, educator, actor, photographer and filmmaker
NationalityMalaysian
Notable awardsHonorary Fellow in Writing, The International Writing Program (IWP) University of Iowa, USA
2014

Winner, Reader's Choice Awards, Non-Fiction Category for Growing Up With Ghosts
2012
Winner of Samsung's Ultra Honour Award
2006
Neu Woman Achievers Award
2005

Winner of the 'Literary Festival Award' at London Book Fair
2018
Website
bernicechauly.com

Bernice Chauly

Georgetown, Penang) is Malaysian writer,[2][3][4] poet,[5][6] educator, festival director, actor, photographer and filmmaker.[7]

Biography

Born to a

Chindian teacher couple, she read Education and English Literature at the University of Winnipeg, Canada as a government scholar.[citation needed
]

She is the author of seven books, which include poetry and prose; going there and coming back (1997), The Book of Sins (2008), Lost in KL (2008), the acclaimed

J.M Coetzee has said is "direct, honest and powerful", Once We Were There (2017) published by Epigram Books,[10][11] Incantations/Incarcerations (2019) published by Gerakbudaya.[12][13]

In 1998, she began organising literary events in Kuala Lumpur and in 2005, founded Readings, the longest-running live literary platform in Kuala Lumpur. In 2011, she was Festival Director for the Writers Unlimited Tour Kuala Lumpur/Makassar and is the Festival Director of the George Town Literary Festival in Penang (2011 – 2018),[14] the only international literature festival in Malaysia. The festival was awarded The Literary Festival Award at the London Book Fair (2019). The award judges stated that "the GTLF stands outs a vibrant, diverse and brave festival that engages with a wide community of voices, speaking to the world from a complex region." She was also the co-curator of at Read My World International Literature Festival Amsterdam (2015). In 2018, Chauly formed PEN Malaysia and was nominated as Director in 2019. PEN Malaysia aims to uphold freedoms of speech and expression in Malaysia and to conduct key events to foster literacy and the love of literature amongst its multicultural society. [15]

She was a resident at the University of Iowa's

University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
. For over 20 years, she worked extensively in the creative industries and won multiple awards for her work and her contribution to the arts in Malaysia.[20]

Bibliography

  • (2019) Incantations/Incarcerations (Poetry). Gerakbudaya. 2019. .
  • (2017) Once We Were There (Novel). Epigram Books. 2017. .
  • (2013) Onkalo (Poetry). Math Paper Press. 2013. .
  • (2011) Growing Up With Ghosts (Memoir). Matahari Books. 2011. .
  • (2008) Lost in KL (Short Stories). Oxygen. 2018. .
  • (2008) The Book of Sins (Poetry). Mulut Mata. 2008. .
  • (1997) Going There and Coming Back (Poetry). Rhino Press. 1997. .

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