Wong Phui Nam Malaysia

Bio
Phui Nam was born in 1935 in Kuala Lumpur. A graduate in economics from the University of Malaya, he has worked in development finance and merchant banking. His volumes of poetry are How the Hills are Distant (1968), Remembering Grandma and Other Rumours (1989), Ways of Exile (1993) and the book of collected poems, An Acre of Day's Glass (2005). He has also published two verse plays, Anike (2005) and Aduni (2008). His poems have appeared in various anthologies and literary journals. Phui Nam believes that he no longer writes in English but in a sub-variety of the language he calls Educated Malaysian-Singaporean Speech.


Who or what book would you like to snuggle under covers with, and why?
"William Shakespeare – His major plays. Reason – Only writer who does not tire."

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