A novelist, poet and playwright, Goh Poh Seng (1936-2010) was born in Kuala Lumpur, received his medical degree from Dublin and practised medicine in Singapore before migrating to Canada in 1986. He wrote all his life, and If We Dream Too Long was his first novel, winning the National Book Development Council of Singapore Award for Fiction in 1976. He published three other novels, five books of poetry, and a fictionalized memoir also published by NUS Press, Tall Tales and MisAdventures of a Young Westernized Oriental Gentleman.

A novelist, poet and playwright, Goh Poh Seng (1936-2010) was born in Kuala Lumpur, received his medical degree from Dublin and practised medicine in Singapore before migrating to Canada in 1986. He wrote all his life, and If We Dream Too Long was his first novel, winning the National Book Development Council of Singapore Award for Fiction in 1976. He published three other novels, five books of poetry, and a fictionalized memoir also published by NUS Press, Tall Tales and MisAdventures of a Young Westernized Oriental Gentleman.

A novelist, poet and playwright, Goh Poh Seng (1936-2010) was born in Kuala Lumpur, received his medical degree from Dublin and practised medicine in Singapore before migrating to Canada in 1986. He wrote all his life, and If We Dream Too Long was his first novel, winning the National Book Development Council of Singapore Award for Fiction in 1976. He published three other novels, five books of poetry, and a fictionalized memoir also published by NUS Press, Tall Tales and MisAdventures of a Young Westernized Oriental Gentleman.