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Dr. Gwee Li Sui, Poet, graphic novelist and literary critic | Umapagan Ampikaipakan, Literary Reviewer

10-Jun-14 14:00

Author-artist-poet-and-literary critic, Dr Gwee Li Sui scored a first-in-Singapore with his first book Myth of the Stone(1993) at twenty-one: a full-length graphic novel in English. This book returned last year in a special twentieth-anniversary edition published by Epigram Books. Soon out from him later this year another book of poems One Thousand and One Nights to complement his Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems.

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