The Votive Pen: Writing on Edwin Thumboo by Nilanjana Sengupta
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Written by Lily Rose TOPE
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The Votive Pen by Sengupta Nilanjana is a literary biography of a major Singapore poet, Edwin Thumboo. Often referred to as the father of Singaporean literature, Thumboo writes in English but creates a nexus for Singapore’s multicultural and multilingual realities in his verse. Nilanjana’s biography showed how Thumboo’s poetry is both personal and historical—reflecting his growth as a writer and at the same time, illustrated the transformation of Singapore from an island which had nothing, to an economic miracle in Southeast Asia.
AUTHOR
Lily Rose TOPE, Ph.D. is currently a faculty member of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman.
