Exorcising her past
IT HAS taken 23 years for author, poet, actress and filmmaker Bernice Chauly (right) to complete her memoir, Growing Up with Ghosts. It’s the story of her parents and her ancestors. Her mother, a Chinese, and her father, a Punjabi,…
Writing the Truth — Fact or Fiction
[audio http://www.dotdotdot.my/assets/files/ddd17062011_Writingthetruth-factorfiction.mp3] We were fortunate to have four touring writers from the Netherlands,Turkey, Egypt and the US together with five Malaysian writers during the recent Writers Unlimited TourKL/Makassar 2011. Umapagan Ampikaipagan moderated a panel discussion during the tour. He walks…
Writers Unlimited – Writers Tour to Indonesia and Malaysia
Connecting writers with each other and with audiences, across borders of cultures and countries. That is the mission of Writers Unlimited (formerly known as Winternachten), the international literature festival. In an annual event in The Hague, and in tours across…
Truth in fiction by Daphne Lee
A recent gathering of authors elicits descriptions like ‘inspiring’ and ‘entertaining’. IT’S been several years since Kuala Lumpur played host to a literary festival, so the city’s book lovers were understandably excited when Malaysian writer and poet Bernice Chauly announced…
Winternachten
Bernice Chauly (Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia, 1968) is a Malaysian writer, poet, photographer and teacher. She graduated with a B.Ed in English Literature and TESL in 1990 from the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She has published two acclaimed collections of poetry,…
Time to tell the true tales, by Hariati Azizan and Sumisha Naidu
Ladies, do you have a story to tell? If you do, share it with the Herstory Films Project, which aims to encourage Malaysian women to relate their stories and learn from each other’s life experiences. FACED with no other prospects…
Telling Malaysian stories
Excerpt of an interview with The Nut Graph: (All pics courtesy of Bernice Chauly) BERNICE Chauly says her work as a poet, photographer, filmmaker and writer is all about telling stories. Her work often has themes of marginalisation and identity….
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On 30 December 2004, Sharifah Mazlina became the first Malaysian, and the first Asian woman to complete a 1100km journey alone in the Antarctic. Her expedition also created a new world record as she traversed the terrain in only 22…
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On 17 April 2007, Sharifah Mazlina became Malaysia’s first woman to reach the North Pole and effectively became the first Asian woman to reach both North and South Poles. This 9 1/2 day expedition covered a distance of 110km from…
Neu Woman Achievers Award 2005 winner
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