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Goh Poh Seng was born on 19 July, 0036 in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya, is a Singaporean writer. Discover Goh Poh Seng'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 74 years old?
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19 July, 1936 |
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19 July |
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Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya |
Date of death |
2010 |
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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Singapore
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Goh Poh Seng Height, Weight & Measurements
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Goh Poh Seng Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Goh Poh Seng worth at the age of 74 years old? Goh Poh Seng’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. He is from Singapore. We have estimated Goh Poh Seng's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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He was a founder of the literary magazine Tumasek (which lasted for three issues) and co-founded Singapore's first multi-disciplinary arts centre, Centre 65, with Lim Kok Ann in 1965 to promote the arts.
In his time living in Singapore, Goh held many honorary positions including the Chairman of the National Theatre Trust Board between 1967 and 1972, and Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council from 1967 to 1973.
He was committed to the development of Art and cultural policies of post-independent Singapore, as well as the development of cultural institutions such as the Singapore National Symphony, the Chinese Orchestra and the Singapore Dance Company.
In 1972, Goh published his first novel, If We Dream Too Long.
Goh's play When the Smiles are Done (1972) was the first to use Singlish on stage, while his debut play The Moon is Less Bright (1964) was revived by Theatreworks (dir. Ong Keng Sen) in 1990 and The Second Breakfast Company (dir. Adeeb Fazah) in 2018.
The novel won the National Book Development Council of Singapore's (NBDCS) Fiction Award in 1976 and has been translated into Russian, Japanese and Tagalog.
While the novel was criticised by The Straits Times upon publication, it enjoyed a first print run of 3,000 copies and was considered the first English-language Singaporean novel.
It was subsequently has been used as a Literature text in various universities.
His other books include the novels The Immolation (1977) and A Dance of Moths (1995), which received the NBDCS Fiction award in 1996, and poetry collections Eyewitness (1976), Lines from Batu Ferringhi (1978) and Bird With One Wing (1982).
In 1982, Goh received the Cultural Medallion for his contributions to Literature.
Goh also opened Singapore's first theatre disco lounge, Rainbow Lounge at Ming Arcade, and Bistro Toulouse-Lautrec at Tanglin Shopping Centre for live jazz and poetry readings, organised Singapore's first David Bowie concert in 1983, and envisioned a livelier Singapore River in the 1970s, a proposal that was only taken seriously decades later.
In 1983 Goh set up Singapore's first disco and live music venue, Rainbow Lounge, at the Ming Arcade.
The venue was shut down by the authorities in 1986 after a complaint was made against it for a indecent remark by a member of the house band.
As a result of the closure of his music venue, Goh emigrated to Canada in 1986.
A 15-minute documentary about Goh, directed by Almerinda Travasoss, was released in 2007.
In 2007, Goh returned to Singapore to attend the Singapore Writers Festival.
In 2009, Goh announced his plan to write a quartet of novels loosely based on his personal and family history.
Goh Poh Seng (July 1936 – 10 January 2010) was a Singaporean dramatist, novelist, doctor and poet, was born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya in 1936.
He was educated at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, received his medical degree from University College Dublin, and practised medicine in Singapore for twenty-five years.
His writing blossomed in Ireland, where he met writers Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan, published his poetry in the university magazine, and took a year off school to write.
Goh died on 10 January 2010 in Vancouver, after suffering from Parkinson's disease in his later years.
Paying tribute to Goh, playwright Robert Yeo said, "He is someone who not only believed in literature, but also believed in lifting the cultural aspirations of Singaporeans."
In 2012, his son, Kagan Goh, published Who Let In The Sky?, a family memoir about Goh's struggle with Parkinson's.
Centre 65 inspired the name of Centre 42, an institution for playwriting which opened in 2014.
In 2014, the Centre for Southeast Asia Research at the University of British Columbia acquired the Goh Poh Seng Collection, a set of 110 volumes from Goh's library.
In 2015, a collection of Goh's short stories based on his adventures in 1950s Ireland, Tall Tales and MisAdventures of a Young Westernized Oriental Gentleman, was posthumously published by NUS Press.
The memoir, written in the last years of Goh's life, includes reflections of his formative encounters with Irish literary giants Patrick Kavanagh and Samuel Beckett.
Reviewing the book in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Zhang Ruihe called it "a valuable addition to Singapore literature, a record of a writer's coming of age in a time of global transition and revolution."