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Lim Chor Pee


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Penang, Malaysia

Lim Chor Pee was a pioneer Singapore playwright writing in English in the early 1960s, part of a circle of writers and theatre practitioners finding their voice as Singapore gained independence.

Born in Penang in 1936, he attended the Penang Free School, and in 1955 he set sail for England, where he read law at St John's College, Cambridge University. Upon graduation in 1958, he moved to London to sit for the English Bar exams. He came to Singapore in 1959 to join the Singapore Legal Service, and later established himself in private practice where he spent the rest of his career.

He was the founding president of the Experimental Theatre Club (ETC), which, together with like-minded friends, he set up in 1961 to foster the growth of English-lan ...more

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Average rating: 3.48 · 46 ratings · 4 reviews · 2 distinct works
Mimi Fan
3.39 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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A White Rose at Midnight
3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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“A breakfast marriage proposal is always a risky thing. By lunchtime, you will regret having made it.”
― Lim Chor Pee, Mimi Fan
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“That's the trouble with you English-educated. You don't take the trouble. Life has been too easy for you. You float in an artificial world of your own-your existence, your language, your parties and your comfort.”
― Lim Chor Pee, A White Rose at Midnight
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“I don't know myself sometimes and I really don't know what I want in life. Truth seems to elude me all the time. Sometimes I think I have found it but it doesn't seem to be there.”
― Lim Chor Pee, Mimi Fan
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