Chuah Guat Eng
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Chuah Guat Eng | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 December 1943 Rembau, Negeri Sembilan |
| Alma mater | University of Malaya |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Chinese name | |
| Chinese | 蔡月英 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Cài Yuèyīng |
| Hokkien POJ | Chhòa Goa̍t-eng |
Chuah Guat Eng (Chinese: 蔡月英; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Goa̍t-eng; born 1 December 1943), is a Malaysian Peranakan Chinese writer.[1] She was Malaysia's first English-language woman novelist.[2]
Chuah was born in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan, and received her early education at the Methodist Girls' School, Klang and Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur.
She read English Literature at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, and German Literature at LMU Munich. She then received a PhD from National University of Malaysia in 2008 for her thesis "From Conflict to Insight: A Zen-based Reading Procedure for the Analysis of Fiction".
