Edwin Thumboo

Edwin Nadason Thumboo was born on 22 November 1933 in Mandai, Singapore, the eldest of the eight children of a Tamil father, a schoolteacher, and a Peranakan mother of Teochew origin. Involved in the country's literary life from 1951, he taught at the national university, compiled the first anthologies of English-language poetry and fiction from Singapore and Malaysia and wrote a poetry column in a major daily newspaper. The first Singaporean to win the South East Asian Write Award, in 1979, he received the Cultural Medallion for literature in the same year.

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• PoetryUlysses by the MerlionEdwin Thumboo · 1979Literature