Interviewing Gwee Li Sui
Maria S. Mendes
Gwee Li Sui is a poet, a graphic artist, and a literary critic. His works of verse include Who Wants to Buy a Book of Poems? (1998), One Thousand and One Nights (2014), Who Wants to Buy an Expanded Edition of a Book of Poems? (2015), The Other Merlion and Friends (2015), Haikuku (2017), and Death Wish (2017). He wrote Singapore’s first long-form graphic novel in English Myth of the Stone back in 1993, which was re-released in an expanded twentieth-anniversary edition in 2013. A familiar name in Singapore’s cultural scene, Gwee has further edited acclaimed literary anthologies and written and lectured on a range of subjects. He also wrote FEAR NO POETRY!: An Essential Guide to Close Reading (2014) and Spiaking Singlish: A Companion to How Singaporeans Communicate (2017).
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