Chan Ling Yap's Blog
April 13, 2018
Nostalgic reunion in KL
In the past two weeks I met up with friends and family in Kuala Lumpur. I have not seen them for years, ever since my husband fell ill in 2009/2010. He died in 2014, and although I continued to write and had published two more novels, A Flash of Water and more recently, Where the Sunrise is Red, I have not been active at all in meeting people. I was very touched that I am still remembered.
Writing had provided me solace. I wish my books to provide insight to the checkered history of my country of birth and the diverse culture that it embraces. Writing takes me back to yesterday years. As one reviewer says of Where the Sunrise is Red, .... "much of the action takes place in mainland Malaya and what is described feels not so much well researched as lived through."
Writing had provided me solace. I wish my books to provide insight to the checkered history of my country of birth and the diverse culture that it embraces. Writing takes me back to yesterday years. As one reviewer says of Where the Sunrise is Red, .... "much of the action takes place in mainland Malaya and what is described feels not so much well researched as lived through."
August 3, 2014
New Beginnings Award Winner 2014
I just found out I won the Star Reader's Popular Choice Award 2014 for New Beginnings yesterday! I am so thrilled, thank you everyone who voted for me!
February 12, 2014
Talk at the High Wycombe Library
For those who attended the talk New Beginnings, the History Behind the Fiction on 7 February, a big thank you. It was lovely to meet you and I enjoyed the discussion that it stimulated. Hope to see you again!
November 30, 2013
New Beginnings: the history behind the fiction
Why not come to my talk New Beginnings: the history behind the fiction at 14.00 hour Friday 7 February 2014 at the High Wycombe Library, Eden Place? An opportunity to discuss the Opium Wars and Britain's expansionist policy in the 1800s. For more information visit my website
