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Born in Singapore,Lee Tzu Pheng was educated at Raffles Girls" Secondary School.
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She has five volumes of poems to her name. Of these, the first three, Prospects of a Drowning(1980), Against the Next Wave, (1988) and The Brink of An Amen (1991) were winners of the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) Award. She has a Doctor of Philosophy in English from the National University of Singapore from where she retired as a Senior Lecturer in its English Department.
Lee"s poetry is meditative and lyrical in nature and with themes such as the individual"s search for an identity and a larger unifying humanity in Against the Next Wave (1988) and The Brink of an Amen (1991).
Her later poetry increasingly questions faith and religion, evident in her work, Lambada by Galilee (1999). Foreign Lee, more often than not, poetry is an expression of the poet"s experiences in life.
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However, her most anthologised work to date is an early poem, My Country and My People (1976), which expresses her ambivalent attitude towards patriotism and nationhood.
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S.E.A.Write Award; Cultural Medallion National Book Development Council Of Singapore for her three books Singapore Cultural Medallion for Literature (1985) S.E.A. Write Award (1987) Gabriela Mistral Award (1996)
The Cultural Medallion is a Singapore cultural award conferred to those who have achieved artistic excellence in dance, theatre, literature, music, photography, art and film.The Cultural Medallion is a Singapore cultural award conferred to those who have achieved artistic excellence in dance, theatre, literature, music, photography, art and film.