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Goh Sin Tub was born on 1927 in Singapore, is an A singaporean writer. Discover Goh Sin Tub'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 77 years old?

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Occupation Writer, teacher, social worker
Age 77 years old
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Born 1927, 1927
Birthday 1927
Birthplace Singapore
Date of death 16 November, 2004
Died Place Singapore
Nationality Singapore

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His wife is Dr Sylvia Goh

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Goh Sin Tub was a well-known pioneer of Singaporean literature.

He was a prolific writer of numerous book titles, which includes bestsellers like The Nan-Mei-Su Girls of Emerald Hill, The Ghost Lover of Emerald Hill, and the Ghosts of Singapore.

He also wrote a collection of short stories in Malay.

1927

Goh was born in 1927 a second-generation Singapore-born Hokkien Chinese to a family of five siblings.

His father was a clerk in the Yokohama Specie Bank (the former Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank) at Clifford Pier while his mother was a housewife.

Three generations had lived on 104 Telok Ayer Street for most of their lives, before relocating to River Valley Road.

He had primary education at the Royal English School in the River Valley vicinity, and went on to the St. Joseph's Institution together with his eldest brother, Charlie Goh.

1935

In 1935 Goh attended the prestigious boys' school Raffles Institution.

When the Japanese began bombing Singapore at the early stage of their invasion, the Goh family hid under a staircase at the back of their house at Emerald Hill.

To avoid further bombing, the family later moved to a shophouse in Philip Road.

He was a 14-year-old boy at the time of the Occupation.

As a youth, he sold bread and canned goods door to door and a coal worker carrying bags of coal to support his family during the Japanese Occupation.

As he was fearful of the Japanese soldiers, he had to learn to be streetwise, and to size people up quickly in order to survive, and make money to support his family.

He continued his education at St Joseph's Institution.

Goh also won a scholarship to study at the prestigious Raffles College (a predecessor of the National University of Singapore) and graduated with a BA in English.

After graduation, Goh returned to SJI to teach and founded the Youth Circle Poetry interest group at the school, which attracted and encouraged aspiring writers to meet regularly to discuss about writing poetry.

Among his former protégés from the club was Edwin Thumboo, who would go on to become a prominent poet and writer in his own right.

1951

In his lifetime he was also a civil servant, serving as deputy secretary to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health between 1951 - 1969.

Moving on from the Ministry, he went into banking as a project management director, and was instrumental to the building of the OCBC Centre and the Dynasty Hotel/Tangs Complex.

He also was a social worker and served as chairman of the Board of Governors for the St. Joseph's Institution.

He also served on positions on a number of committees of various private and governmental organizations in Singapore.

1992

In 1992 Goh, along with Mrs Hedwig Anuar, was appointed to the 69-member Publications Advisory Panel by the Minister for Information and the Arts, to advise approvals and classification of publications referred to them by the Film Censors Board and the Ministry.