Once We Were There wins at The Readers Choice Awards 2018
Bernice Chauly’s ‘Once We Were There’ wins 2nd prize in the Fiction Category at the 2018 Readers Choice Awards.
Once We Were There wins Penang Monthly Book Prize
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.
The Cultural Frontline: Bernice Chauly on the BBC
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…
Article: Literary town
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,…
Review: Writer Bernice Chauly celebrates Malaysia’s dark side
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…
Review: Once We Were There – debut novel breaks every taboo in the book for Malaysians
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…
Honorary Fellow in Writing, The International Writing Program (IWP) 2014, University of Iowa, USA
Bernice CHAULY (poet, nonfiction and fiction writer, playwright, filmmaker; Malaysia) is the author of the poetry collections going there and coming back (1997), The Book of Sins (2008), and Onkalo (2013), the short-fiction book Lost in KL (2008) and…
Meet These Writers by Rouwen Lin
AFTER three months of preparation and with five writers now on board, the latest addition to Penang’s arts and culture calendar is set to take off this weekend. The two-day George Town Literary Festival started with a vision: when Penang…
Universal Search by Daphne Lee
At some point in everyone’s lives, we need to know where we came from. WHAT stands out for me when I think of Bernice Chauly’s book, Growing Up With Ghosts – A Memoir, is the story of her father’s death….
Well Lit: A fiery, furious love by Umapagan Ampikaipakan
MEMOIRS are, by definition, works in progress. They should, for all intents and purposes, take a lifetime to write. They should communicate change. They should symbolise growth. They should be reflective. In an age where everyone is looking for their…