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Arthur Yap (Arthur Yap Chior Hiong) was born on 1943 in Singapore, is a Singaporean poet, writer and painter. Discover Arthur Yap's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

Popular As Arthur Yap Chior Hiong
Occupation Poet, Pedagogue
Age 63 years old
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Born 1943, 1943
Birthday 1943
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Date of death 19 June, 2006
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Nationality Singapore

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1967

His Passion for painting began in 1967 when he was working as a Pre-University English Literature teacher at the Serangoon Gardens English School.

During the weekends he would pick up the brush, expressing himself through his abstract works of art.

1971

His first collection of poems Only Lines was published in 1971, when he was 28.

It had a first print run of 2,000 to 3,000 copies.

1976

Its whimsical, Wordplay-based humour captured the hearts of poetry lovers, and it won the first poetry award from the National Book Development Council of Singapore in 1976.

An analysis of the poems from Only Lines finds moments of both celebration and apology for the power of the written word.

At times he begins his verses as if in mid-conversation with the reader:

The pun on the word 'plot' in this passage, denoting both a storyline and a piece of land, suggests a dimensionality in the language that belies the dismissive adjective 'only'.

Other signature features of Yap's poems include his choice of simple words, and the use of all-lowercase style favoured by American poet E. E. Cummings.

1977

Yap's second collection Commonplace was published in 1977.

1979

He stayed on in the university's Department of English Language and Literature as a lecturer between the years 1979 and 1998.

1980

The third collection, Down The Line (1980) was acclaimed and won Yap his second Book Council Award.

1981

Yap also served as the general editor of literary magazine Singa, first published in 1981.

1983

In 1983, Yap was honored with Singapore's Cultural Medallion for Literature and the South-East Asian Write Award in Bangkok.

Yap described this as one of the high points in his literary career.

Translations of his books were published in many Asian countries, mainly in the Japanese, Mandarin and Malay languages.

1988

In 1988, Yap won his third Book Council Award for Man Snake Apple & Other Poems (1986).

1991

One of Yap's short stories was included in Singapore Short Stories, which was used worldwide for the 'O' Levels from 1991 to 1992.

1992

Between 1992 and 1996, Yap served as a mentor with the Creative Arts Programme run by the Ministry of Education to help inspire students and nurture young writers at local secondary schools and junior colleges.

Yap was then diagnosed with lung cancer, and received radiotherapy treatment.

Yap was known to be an intensely private man.

Yap's poetry is distinctive for an unusual linguistic playfulness and subtlety that is able to bridge the rhythms of Singlish with the precision of acrolectic English.

Unsurprisingly, the craft of Yap's voice has the admiration of other writers.

Anthony Burgess has written that he encountered Down the Line "with elation and occasional awe", while D. J. Enright has praised Yap's "sophisticated cosmopolitan intelligence".

The Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Poetry describes Yap's poems as "original, but... demanding: elliptical, dense, dry, sometimes droll. At their best, they shuttle between playfulness and sobriety and are alert to the rhythms and contours of the natural and the peopled landscape, seasoning insight with compassion."

1996

Yap's poems 'In Passing', about the restlessness of the modern world, and 'Old House at Ann Siang Hill' were included in The Calling of Kindred: Poems from the English-speaking World, a poetry anthology prescribed for the 'O' Levels in Singapore from 1996 to 1997.

His poems also have been included in a literature course offered by McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, and collected in anthologies like New Voices of the Commonwealth, The Flowering Tree and The Second Tongue: An Anthology of Poetry from Malaysia and Singapore.

Selected poems of his are on the reading lists of West Virginia University and New York University Sydney.

1998

In 1998, Yap received the Montblanc-NUS Centre for the Arts Literary Award for English.

2000

A selection from each of Yap's previous books was compiled in The Space of City Trees: Selected Poems published in 2000.

Extracts from The Space of City Trees were subsequently published in The Straits Times' Life!

Books section.

2006

Arthur Yap Chioh Hiong (1943 – 19 June 2006) was a Singaporean poet, writer and painter.

Arthur Yap was born in Singapore, the sixth child of a carpenter and a housewife.

Yap attended St Andrew's School and the University of Singapore, after which he won a British Council scholarship to study at the University of Leeds in England.

At Leeds Arthur earned a master's degree in Linguistics and English Language Teaching, later obtaining his PhD from the National University of Singapore in the years after he returned from Leeds.

2013

NUS Press published The collected poems of Arthur Yap and Noon at five o'clock, a collection of his short stories, in 2013 and 2014 respectively.

Yap's paintings decorated both book covers.

2015

In 2015, Down the Line was selected by The Business Times as one of the Top 10 English Singapore books from 1965 to 2015, alongside titles by Goh Poh Seng and Daren Shiau.

Yap was also a painter.