The Non-Existent Lover & Other Stories

ABOUT THE WRITER

Yeng Pway Ngon is a recipient of the 2003 Cultural Medallion for Literature. He has published 26 volumes of poetry, fiction, essays, plays and literary criticism in Chinese. In 2013, he taught novel- and short story-writing at Nanyang Technological University's Chinese Language Department, under the Chinese-Writing-Residency Project. In the same year, he received the South-east Asia Write Award (SEA Write Award).

Pway Ngon won the National Book Development Council's Book Award for 1987-88, and was the winner of Singapore Literature Prize for 2004, 2008, 2012.

His poetry and novels have been translated into English and Italian.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Goh Beng Choo has translated books by various Chinese authors, including Tsai Chih Chung's The Sayings of Confucius and Lee Ying Ho's Antique Ceramics. She has also translated Yeng Pway Ngon's poetry, an award-wining novella A Man Like Me as well as an award-winning novel Art Studio. Formerly a bilingual reporter writing about Chinese art and culture for The Straits Times, Beng Choo is currently a freelance translator and columnist for a Chinese magazine.