Incantations/Incarcerations is a rumination on ageing, menopause, losing one’s children to the world, climate change, and the slow decline of the body. In this collection, Bernice Chauly will once again chart the unsayable and the confessional, and speak from places…
“This is a win for culture, for literature, for free speech and expression. This is a win for discourse, diversity and conversation. This is a win for Penang, for George Town, for all who love literary festivals and for all…
The Batang Kali Massacre The Griffith Review 29 SOMETIME IN 1990, I was driving with Mary Maguire, a long-time British resident of Malaysia, in her bright-yellow VW Beetle along a beautiful winding road towards the town of Kuala Kubu Baru,…
Bernice Chauly’s ‘Once We Were There’ wins 2nd prize in the Fiction Category at the 2018 Readers Choice Awards.
Bernice Chauly’s ‘Once We Were There’ wins the Penang Monthly Book Prize for November 2017. The book was awarded in the ‘Excellence in Fiction’ category.
Here is an interview with author Bernice Chauly, taken from a BBC World Service programme called The Cultural Frontline In Bernice’s book, Once We Were There— which won the Penang Monthly Book Prize 2017 — the Reformasi political movement of the 1990s was…
By Kate Mayberry for the Mekong Review Issue 12, August 2018 Link to article: https://mekongreview.com/literary-town/ On the eve of Malaysia’s May election, Bernice Chauly finally sat down to watch Mahathir Mohamad deliver a campaign speech. Over the previous fortnight,…
New novel depicts the hedonism and idealism of Reformasi-era Kuala Lumpur By Marco Ferrarese for the Nikkei Asian Review Published 26 October, 2017 Link to article: https://s.nikkei.com/2F5hbef Author Bernice Chauly reads from her new novel “Once We Were There” in Singapore…
Race, religion, politics, corruption, sex – nothing is off limits for Bernice Chauly in Once We Were There, a daring page-turner, framed by events of Reformasi movement, about a mother in Kuala Lumpur caught up in rapid social change By…
South East Asian Cover designed by Allan Yap. UK cover designed by Priscilla Wong. Synopsis: Journalist Delonix Regia chances upon the cultured and irresistible Omar amidst the upheaval of the Reformasi movement in Kuala Lumpur. As the city roils around…