Wong Phui Nam is a Malaysian poet and economist who was born on
September 20th, 1935 in Kuala Lumpur to a family of Chinese descendants. He
received his education at the Batu Road School, Victoria Institution and
University of Singapore, earning a BA in economics. He was involved in the
student-founded literary magazine, The New Cauldron and was co-editor of two poem
anthologies from the universitiy. After he had graduated from his university, he
has worked in banking and development financing. He is an anglophone poet. In
1968, several of his poetry collections have been published, beginning with 'How
the Hills are Distant'. His first play, 'Anike' was produced by Maya Press in
June 2006. His other works include 'Remembering Grandma and other poems' (1989),
'Ways of Exile' (1993), 'Against the Wilderness' (2000) and 'An Acre of Day's
Glass: Collected Poems' (2006).
(Source: Wikipedia)
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