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Robert Yeo (Robert Yeo Cheng Chuan) was born on 1940 in Singapore, is a Singaporean poet. Discover Robert Yeo'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 84 years old?
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Robert Yeo Cheng Chuan |
| Occupation |
Poet, playwright and novelist |
| Age |
84 years old |
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| Born |
1940, 1940 |
| Birthday |
1940 |
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| Nationality |
Singapore
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He is a member of famous poet with the age 84 years old group.
Robert Yeo Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Robert Yeo's Wife?
His wife is Esther Leong
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Esther Leong |
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Robert Yeo Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Robert Yeo worth at the age of 84 years old? Robert Yeo’s income source is mostly from being a successful poet. He is from Singapore. We have estimated Robert Yeo's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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Not Available |
| Source of Income |
poet |
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Timeline
Robert Yeo (born Robert Yeo Cheng Chuan; 1940) is a Singaporean poet, playwright and novelist.
Yeo is a retired lecturer of the National Institute of Education and Nanyang Technological University.
He has published four poetry collections: Coming Home Baby (1971); And Napalm Does Not Help (1977), A Part of Three (1989) and Leaving Home, Mother (1999) and has been included in several anthologies, including Five Takes (1974).
Yeo has written six plays: Are You There, Singapore? (1974), One Year Back Home (1980), Second Chance (1988), The Eye of History (1991), Changi (1996) and Your Bed is Your Coffin.
All the plays except the last have been staged in Singapore.
Are You There, Singapore?, One Year Back Home and Changi are collectively known as "the Singapore trilogy".
Yeo is married to Esther Leong, who he met on the set of Are You There, Singapore? in 1974, when she played the character Hua after responding to an audition call in the newspapers.
For more than a decade, from 1977 onwards, he was chairman of the Drama Advisory Committee which helped develop theatre in Singapore, especially English-language theatre.
In 1978, he attended the University of Iowa's International Writing Program and was a Fulbright Scholar in 1995.
His venture into novel writing resulted in a sole book: The Adventures of Holden Heng (1986) about the sexual education of its anti-hero.
For this work, he received the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Star) in 1991, and was awarded the S.E.A. Write Award in 2011.
In 2011, he is a teacher of creative writing at the Singapore Management University and mentors the Mentor Access Programme of the National Arts Council.
Yeo has also edited collections of short fiction, plays and textbooks, a memoir, as well as the libretto for an opera, Fences (2012).
