MARIE GERRINA LOUIS

MARIE  GERRINA  LOUIS

     

- She was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1964, the eldest of 5 girls. 

- She is married with 2 daughters aged 14 and 4 respectively.

- She starts to write at the age of 16 years old, starting with short stories and

   poetry for local paper "New Thrill".

- Later, she wrote articles on general topics for “STAR”.  

- Her first book - “The Shuttle Caper at Keating” - (unpublished because she considered it too amateurish)  because it was written when she was 17.

- She wrote 3 radio plays for RTM’s , “Radio Theatre” back in the 80's under the names “Marie Gerrina Andrew” or “Gerrina Andrew”.

- She also wrote the following children’s books for Delta Publications Sdn Bhd under the names “Marie Gerrina Andrew” or “Gerrina Andrew” :- 

Ciku To The Rescue

Tickets to the Circus

Si Tempang And The English Dog

THE MAGIC BELLS

LILLTE SASHA

- Her first break came in 1990 when her short story “Bequests of Love”, written under the name “Marie Gerrina Louis” won a consolation prize at the NST-Shell Short Story Competition.  

- The story together with the other winning entries have been compiled into a book called “Haunting The Tiger & Other Stories” by Kee Thuan Chye. 

- She won another consolation prize the next year at the same competition and the story was called “Extenuating Circumstances”.

- Her first book, “The Road To Chandibole”, written under the name “Marie Gerrina Louis”, was published by Heinemann Asia, Singapore in 1994 and re-published by SNP Publications Pte Ltd under their Raffles Imprint in 2000.

- Her second book “Junos” was published by Heinemann Asia, Singapore in 1995.

- Her third book “The Eleventh Finger” was published by SNP Publications Pte Ltd under their Raffles Imprint in 2000. This book was given an honourable mention at this year’s regional Commonwealth Prize Competition held in Singapore, as being a “strong contender for Best Novel”.

- She is also one of the authors whose work was chosen to be written about in Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf and Mohammad A. Quayum’s recent collaboration called “Colonial to Global : Malaysian Women’s Writing In English 1940s - 1990s”.

- She can be reached at marie.louis@hhp.com.sg

source : http://www.oocities.org/uthayasb2001/biomarie.html