Once We Were There: now available in Malaysia, Singapore, and the UK.
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…
IWP — Live from Prairie Lights
Sabah Sanhouri, Bernice Chauly, and Beatrice Smigasiewicz reading, IWP at Live from Prairie Lights, October 19, 2014 To listen to a recording of this reading, click here.
Writers Unlimited — Winternachten 2012 The Hague
Writers Unlimited — Winternachten 2012 The Hague Keep on Dreaming! A wink at the dreamers, the believers in utopias, the pursuers of ideals, that is the theme of the Writers Unlimited Winternachten Festival 2012. Writers and thinkers from the Netherlands…
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…
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,…
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 Antilles/Suriname 2010: “A sense of belonging”
‘A sense of belonging’, was the theme of a combined writers’ tour by Winternachten to the Dutch Carribean and Suriname. For two weeks, from 13 to 24 April 2010, writers Bas Heijne (Netherlands), Yasmine Allas (Netherlands/Somalia), Bernice Chauly (Malaysia) and…
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,…
