Chiew-Siah Tei
Chiew-Siah Tei is a Malaysian-born writer.
Biography
Tei was born and grew up in Tampin, southern Malaysia, and published her first work in the 1980s. During the 1990s she published prose and commentary in journals including Sin Chew Jit Poh and Nanyang Siang Pao, winning nominations and several awards - including the Hua Zong International Chinese Fiction Award and the National Prose Writing Competition - for her Chinese language prose. In 2002 Tei was nominated the Best Prose Writer of the year. Her first novel, Little Hut of Leaping Fishes, was long-listed for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize in 2007.
In 2002 she moved to Scotland and enrolled to study film and creative writing at Glasgow University.
Books
- Little Hut of Leaping Fishes, Picador, 2008
- It's Snowing (Chinese language), Orion Group, 1998: prose collection recounting her life as an outsider in Scotland
- Secrets and Lies (Chinese language), Mentor Publishing, 2000: collected arts and film reviews.
Film and Theatre
Tei's screenplay Night Swimmer was made into a feature film[1] that won Best Short Film at France's Vendôme International Film Festival 2000.[2]
In 2005 her play Three Thousand Troubled Threads was staged at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Film and Theatre
- ↑ "Night Swimming: IMDb". Retrieved 13 October 2010.
- ↑ "Vendôme Short Film Festival 2000:IMDb". Retrieved 13 October 2010.